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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	34,280

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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