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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	South Korea	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	46,617	273
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	47,008	274
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	47,370	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	47,645	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	47,892	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	48,083	279
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	48,185	280
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	48,438	281
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	48,684	282
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	49,055	283
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	49,308	285
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	49,554	286
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	49,937	287
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	50,200	288
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	50,429	289
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	50,747	290
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	51,015	291
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	51,218	291
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	51,362	292
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	51,585	293
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	51,765	294
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	51,836	294
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	51,745	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	51,731	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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