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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 ArgentinaOmanAzerbaijan
36,9242,3488,056
37,3362,4038,127
37,7142,4578,194
38,0792,5108,257
38,4382,5628,319
38,8002,6138,391
39,1712,6638,475
39,5562,7138,565
39,9472,7648,657
40,3432,8168,750
40,7362,8718,842
41,4012,9288,933
41,8812,9869,025
42,3603,0479,117
42,8363,1109,210
43,3103,1749,302
43,7793,2409,393
44,2453,3079,481
44,7063,3759,567
45,1623,4449,649
45,6133,5129,727
46,0583,5829,802
46,4963,6519,874
46,7363,6969,918

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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