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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosDominicaArgentinaAlbania
2737036,9243,085
2747137,3363,065
2757137,7143,047
2767238,0793,038
2787238,4383,026
2797238,8003,014
2807239,1712,998
2817239,5562,979
2827239,9472,957
2837340,3432,934
2857340,7362,915
2867341,4012,900
2877341,8812,892
2887342,3602,888
2897342,8362,882
2907343,3102,876
2917443,7792,868
2917444,2452,863
2927444,7062,861
2937445,1622,854
2947545,6132,842
2947546,0582,825
2957646,4962,799
2957646,7362,787

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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