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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Sweden
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	8,858
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	8,872
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	8,896
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	8,925
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	8,958
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	8,994
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	9,030
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	9,081
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	9,148
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	9,220
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	9,299
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	9,378
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	9,449
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	9,519
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	9,600
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	9,696
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	9,799
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	9,923
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	10,058
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	10,175
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	10,279
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	10,354
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	10,416
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	10,487

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.

All data sources

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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