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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	5,556

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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