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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	Guinea
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	2,348	7,610
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	2,403	7,780
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	2,457	7,821
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	2,510	7,906
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	2,562	8,121
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	2,613	8,317
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	2,663	8,478
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	2,713	8,650
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	2,764	8,860
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	2,816	9,091
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	2,871	9,327
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	2,928	9,571
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	2,986	9,825
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	3,047	10,084
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	3,110	10,351
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	3,174	10,632
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	3,240	10,924
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	3,307	11,225
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	3,375	11,534
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	3,444	11,855
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	3,512	12,160
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	3,582	12,469
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	3,651	12,778
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	3,696	13,087

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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