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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	Dominica	Argentina	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	36,924	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	37,336	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	37,714	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	38,079	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	38,438	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	38,800	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	39,171	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	39,556	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	39,947	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	40,343	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	40,736	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	41,401	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	41,881	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	42,360	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	42,836	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	43,310	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	43,779	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	44,245	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	44,706	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	45,162	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	45,613	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	46,058	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	46,496	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	46,736	3,570

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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