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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Belgium	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	46,736

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

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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; the database as a whole is cited above.