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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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