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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 ArgentinaOmanBurkina FasoMalta
36,9242,34811,075387
37,3362,40311,405390
37,7142,45711,828393
38,0792,51012,380396
38,4382,56212,829398
38,8002,61313,178401
39,1712,66313,540404
39,5562,71313,917405
39,9472,76414,309406
40,3432,81614,722409
40,7362,87115,152412
41,4012,92815,600414
41,8812,98616,064416
42,3603,04716,563420
42,8363,11017,072426
43,3103,17417,575435
43,7793,24018,094445
44,2453,30718,621455
44,7063,37519,157468
45,1623,44419,698485
45,6133,51220,242504
46,0583,58220,788516
46,4963,65121,336518
46,7363,69621,889530

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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