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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	5,216

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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