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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Italy	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	56,940	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	56,966	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	57,004	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	57,114	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,423	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	57,852	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	58,191	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	58,424	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	58,781	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	59,236	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	59,580	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	59,844	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	60,052	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	60,216	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	60,337	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	60,346	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	60,255	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	60,140	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	60,027	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	59,902	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	59,754	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	59,464	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	59,158	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	58,966	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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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