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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	40,364

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Iraq

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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