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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 Bosnia & HerzegovinaOmanArgentina
3,8112,34836,924
3,9012,40337,336
3,9192,45737,714
3,9232,51038,079
3,9402,56238,438
3,9752,61338,800
3,9912,66339,171
3,9932,71339,556
3,9902,76439,947
3,9872,81640,343
3,9852,87140,736
3,9832,92841,401
3,9802,98641,881
3,9773,04742,360
3,9733,11042,836
3,9683,17443,310
3,9633,24043,779
3,9573,30744,245
3,9513,37544,706
3,9443,44445,162
3,9373,51245,613
3,9293,58246,058
3,9213,65146,496
3,8763,69646,736

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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