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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Albania	Argentina	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,085	36,924	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,065	37,336	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,047	37,714	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,038	38,079	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,026	38,438	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,014	38,800	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,998	39,171	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,979	39,556	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,957	39,947	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,934	40,343	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,915	40,736	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,900	41,401	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,892	41,881	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,888	42,360	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,882	42,836	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,876	43,310	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,868	43,779	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,863	44,245	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,861	44,706	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,854	45,162	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,842	45,613	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,825	46,058	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,799	46,496	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,787	46,736	2,559

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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