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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	34,081

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Saudi Arabia

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.