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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Benin	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	6,461	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	6,677	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	6,902	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,130	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,360	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,589	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,838	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,089	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,335	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,603	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,884	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,179	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,486	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,805	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,135	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,480	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,842	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,220	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,613	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	12,018	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	12,370	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	12,725	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	13,081	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	13,439	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.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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