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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	Oman	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	2,348	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	2,403	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	2,457	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	2,510	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	2,562	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	2,613	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	2,663	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	2,713	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	2,764	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	2,816	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	2,871	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	2,928	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	2,986	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	3,047	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	3,110	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	3,174	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	3,240	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	3,307	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	3,375	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	3,444	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	3,512	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	3,582	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	3,651	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	3,696	39,252

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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