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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	6,910

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

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