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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	Laos	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	5,286	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	5,397	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	5,499	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	5,578	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	5,654	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	5,746	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	5,836	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	5,931	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	6,035	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	6,145	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	6,257	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	6,368	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	6,477	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	6,586	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	6,695	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	6,804	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	6,912	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	7,019	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	7,127	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	7,234	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	7,343	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	7,452	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	7,560	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	7,666	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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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