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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Jordan	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,591	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,700	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,811	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,923	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,037	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,161	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,295	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,765	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,243	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,397	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,538	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,680	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,840	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,952	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,706	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,839	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,506	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,863	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,066	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,273	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,480	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,628	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,716	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,849	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

Jordan

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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