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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Philippines	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	79,346	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	81,131	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	83,023	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	84,876	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	86,697	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	88,568	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	90,418	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	92,253	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	94,098	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	95,923	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	97,627	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	99,317	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	100,999	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	102,618	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	104,299	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	106,076	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	107,868	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	109,493	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	111,094	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	112,843	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	114,636	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	117,026	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	119,473	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	121,234	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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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