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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Lithuania	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	3,419	273
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	3,395	274
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	3,367	275
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	3,340	276
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	3,313	278
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	3,276	279
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	3,223	280
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	3,172	281
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	3,134	282
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	3,102	283
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	3,068	285
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	3,004	286
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,937	287
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	2,898	288
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	2,869	289
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	2,844	290
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	2,818	291
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	2,782	291
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	2,744	292
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	2,718	293
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	2,710	294
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	2,711	294
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	2,724	295
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	2,748	295

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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