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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 ArgentinaCentral African RepublicLuxembourg
36,9243,889433
37,3363,980438
37,7144,054443
38,0794,128448
38,4384,215454
38,8004,289460
39,1714,363467
39,5564,449474
39,9474,544482
40,3434,641491
40,7364,742500
41,4014,845509
41,8814,950521
42,3605,057533
42,8365,167547
43,3105,278560
43,7795,392571
44,2455,507586
44,7065,625599
45,1625,745610
45,6135,874623
46,0586,025633
46,4966,154643
46,7366,291651

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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