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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Burkina Faso	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	11,075	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	11,405	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	11,828	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	12,380	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	12,829	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	13,178	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	13,540	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	13,917	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	14,309	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	14,722	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	15,152	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	15,600	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	16,064	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	16,563	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	17,072	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	17,575	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	18,094	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	18,621	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,157	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,698	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	20,242	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	20,788	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	21,336	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	21,889	85,108

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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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