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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Albania	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	3,085	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	3,065	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	3,047	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	3,038	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	3,026	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	3,014	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,998	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,979	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,957	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,934	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,915	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,900	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,892	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	2,888	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	2,882	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	2,876	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	2,868	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	2,863	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	2,861	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	2,854	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	2,842	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	2,825	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	2,799	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	2,787	21,889

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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Albania, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.