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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Iraq	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,076	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,748	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	23,440	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,212	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,979	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,726	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	26,531	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,706	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,429	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	26,969	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	28,024	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	28,956	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	29,974	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	31,321	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	32,779	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	33,857	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	34,674	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	35,437	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,200	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,015	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,846	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,673	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	39,491	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	40,364	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

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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