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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Spain	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	40,378	273
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	40,563	274
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	40,775	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	41,433	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	42,205	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	42,869	279
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	43,672	280
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	44,370	281
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	45,246	282
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	45,993	283
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	46,378	285
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	46,573	286
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	46,746	287
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	46,777	288
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	46,603	289
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	46,465	290
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	46,420	291
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	46,460	291
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	46,543	292
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	46,739	293
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	47,116	294
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	47,366	294
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	47,342	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	47,625	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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