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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 FasoNepal
36,92411,07523,087
37,33611,40523,487
37,71411,82823,887
38,07912,38024,273
38,43812,82924,645
38,80013,17824,989
39,17113,54025,255
39,55613,91725,484
39,94714,30925,732
40,34314,72225,998
40,73615,15226,298
41,40115,60026,664
41,88116,06427,081
42,36016,56327,505
42,83617,07227,917
43,31017,57528,311
43,77918,09428,678
44,24518,62129,034
44,70619,15729,384
45,16219,69829,718
45,61320,24230,057
46,05820,78830,595
46,49621,33631,311
46,73621,88931,845

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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