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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	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	2,348	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	2,403	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	2,457	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	2,510	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	2,562	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	2,613	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	2,663	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	2,713	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	2,764	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	2,816	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	2,871	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	2,928	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	2,986	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	3,047	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	3,110	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	3,174	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	3,240	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	3,307	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	3,375	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	3,444	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	3,512	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	3,582	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	3,651	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	3,696	19,715

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Barbados, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.