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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	17,709

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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