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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 FasoEthiopia
36,92411,07563,575
37,33611,40565,213
37,71411,82866,889
38,07912,38068,649
38,43812,82970,491
38,80013,17872,389
39,17113,54074,327
39,55613,91776,326
39,94714,30978,411
40,34314,72280,564
40,73615,15282,787
41,40115,60085,096
41,88116,06487,530
42,36016,56390,066
42,83617,07292,632
43,31017,57595,337
43,77918,09498,114
44,24518,621100,858
44,70619,157103,654
45,16219,698106,466
45,61320,242109,267
46,05820,788112,100
46,49621,336114,964
46,73621,889117,924

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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