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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	Switzerland	Burkina Faso	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	11,075	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	11,405	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	11,828	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	12,380	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	12,829	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	13,178	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	13,540	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	13,917	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	14,309	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	14,722	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	15,152	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	15,600	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	16,064	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	16,563	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	17,072	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	17,575	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	18,094	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	18,621	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	19,157	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	19,698	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	20,242	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	20,788	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	21,336	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	21,889	46,736

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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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