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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Jordan	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	4,591	273
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	4,700	274
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	4,811	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	4,923	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	5,037	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	5,161	279
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	5,295	280
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	5,765	281
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	6,243	282
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	6,397	283
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	6,538	285
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	6,680	286
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	6,840	287
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	6,952	288
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	7,706	289
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	8,839	290
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	9,506	291
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	9,863	291
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	10,066	292
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	10,273	293
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	10,480	294
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	10,628	294
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	10,716	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	10,849	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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