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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 ArgentinaOmanAlbania
36,9242,3483,085
37,3362,4033,065
37,7142,4573,047
38,0792,5103,038
38,4382,5623,026
38,8002,6133,014
39,1712,6632,998
39,5562,7132,979
39,9472,7642,957
40,3432,8162,934
40,7362,8712,915
41,4012,9282,900
41,8812,9862,892
42,3603,0472,888
42,8363,1102,882
43,3103,1742,876
43,7793,2402,868
44,2453,3072,863
44,7063,3752,861
45,1623,4442,854
45,6133,5122,842
46,0583,5822,825
46,4963,6512,799
46,7363,6962,787

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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