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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	38,685

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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