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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	68,457

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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