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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 ArgentinaMoldovaBosnia & Herzegovina
36,9244,2443,811
37,3364,1993,901
37,7144,1543,919
38,0794,1083,923
38,4384,0593,940
38,8004,0133,975
39,1713,9663,991
39,5563,9193,993
39,9473,8733,990
40,3433,8293,987
40,7363,7883,985
41,4013,7483,983
41,8813,7093,980
42,3603,6713,977
42,8363,6333,973
43,3103,5953,968
43,7793,5583,963
44,2453,5223,957
44,7063,4853,951
45,1623,4483,944
45,6133,4123,937
46,0583,3763,929
46,4963,3393,921
46,7363,5703,876

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.