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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Burkina Faso	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	11,075	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	11,405	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	11,828	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	12,380	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	12,829	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	13,178	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	13,540	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	13,917	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	14,309	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	14,722	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	15,152	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	15,600	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	16,064	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	16,563	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	17,072	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	17,575	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	18,094	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	18,621	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,157	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,698	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	20,242	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	20,788	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	21,336	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	21,889	6,910

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

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