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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	12,060

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.

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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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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