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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Germany	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	81,439	273
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	81,474	274
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	81,534	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	81,595	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	81,566	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	81,473	279
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	81,354	280
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	81,190	281
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	81,009	282
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	80,781	283
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	80,500	285
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	80,301	286
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	80,292	287
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	80,443	288
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,663	289
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	81,000	290
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	81,704	291
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	82,366	291
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	82,674	292
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	82,923	293
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	83,110	294
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	83,178	294
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	83,213	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	83,811	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.

All data sources

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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