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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 ArgentinaBurkina FasoCongo - Kinshasa
36,92411,07551,181
37,33611,40552,782
37,71411,82854,453
38,07912,38056,170
38,43812,82957,860
38,80013,17859,599
39,17113,54061,474
39,55613,91763,479
39,94714,30965,590
40,34314,72267,800
40,73615,15270,114
41,40115,60072,550
41,88116,06475,138
42,36016,56377,792
42,83617,07280,534
43,31017,57583,368
43,77918,09486,229
44,24518,62189,193
44,70619,15792,209
45,16219,69895,232
45,61320,24298,320
46,05820,788101,499
46,49621,336104,767
46,73621,889108,171

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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