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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Costa Rica
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	3,785
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	3,867
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	3,951
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	4,021
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	4,079
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	4,145
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	4,212
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	4,278
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	4,338
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	4,400
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	4,467
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	4,544
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	4,587
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	4,648
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	4,707
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	4,768
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	4,827
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	4,885
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	4,942
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	4,998
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	5,052
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	5,105
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	5,158
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	5,185

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

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