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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ArgentinaBosnia & HerzegovinaAlbania
36,9243,8113,085
37,3363,9013,065
37,7143,9193,047
38,0793,9233,038
38,4383,9403,026
38,8003,9753,014
39,1713,9912,998
39,5563,9932,979
39,9473,9902,957
40,3433,9872,934
40,7363,9852,915
41,4013,9832,900
41,8813,9802,892
42,3603,9772,888
42,8363,9732,882
43,3103,9682,876
43,7793,9632,868
44,2453,9572,863
44,7063,9512,861
45,1623,9442,854
45,6133,9372,842
46,0583,9292,825
46,4963,9212,799
46,7363,8762,787

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.