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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	Argentina	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	7,666

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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