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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 BarbadosDominicaArgentinaParaguay
2737036,9245,366
2747137,3365,473
2757137,7145,579
2767238,0795,683
2787238,4385,786
2797238,8005,886
2807239,1715,984
2817239,5566,080
2827239,9476,173
2837340,3436,264
2857340,7366,352
2867341,4016,438
2877341,8816,522
2887342,3606,605
2897342,8366,688
2907343,3106,769
2917443,7796,850
2917444,2456,930
2927444,7067,012
2937445,1627,095
2947545,6137,179
2947546,0587,263
2957646,4967,348
2957646,7367,432

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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