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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Italy
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	56,940
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	56,966
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	57,004
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	57,114
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	57,423
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	57,852
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	58,191
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	58,424
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	58,781
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	59,236
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	59,580
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	59,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	60,052
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	60,216
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	60,337
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	60,346
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	60,255
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	60,140
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	60,027
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	59,902
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	59,754
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	59,464
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	59,158
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	58,966

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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