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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	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	23,796

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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