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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Finland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	5,166	273
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	5,176	274
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	5,188	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	5,201	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	5,213	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	5,228	279
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	5,246	280
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	5,266	281
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	5,289	282
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	5,313	283
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	5,339	285
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	5,363	286
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	5,388	287
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	5,414	288
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	5,439	289
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	5,463	290
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	5,481	291
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	5,495	291
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	5,508	292
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	5,516	293
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	5,522	294
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	5,531	294
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	5,542	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	5,556	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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