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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 FasoSt. Lucia
36,92411,075152
37,33611,405153
37,71411,828154
38,07912,380155
38,43812,829156
38,80013,178157
39,17113,540157
39,55613,917158
39,94714,309159
40,34314,722160
40,73615,152160
41,40115,600161
41,88116,064162
42,36016,563162
42,83617,072163
43,31017,575163
43,77918,094164
44,24518,621164
44,70619,157165
45,16219,698166
45,61320,242166
46,05820,788167
46,49621,336167
46,73621,889167

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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