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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Japan	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	126,512	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	126,755	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	127,056	275
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	127,324	276
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	127,558	278
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	127,658	279
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	127,679	280
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	127,762	281
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	127,904	282
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	127,969	283
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	127,958	285
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	127,967	286
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	127,755	287
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	127,476	288
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	127,257	289
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	127,186	290
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	127,034	291
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	126,857	291
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	126,631	292
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	126,368	293
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	126,092	294
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	125,634	294
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	125,427	295
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	124,762	295

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.