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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 BarbadosCambodiaOmanArgentina
27312,1222,34836,924
27412,3172,40337,336
27512,5042,45737,714
27612,6912,51038,079
27812,8812,56238,438
27913,0762,61338,800
28013,2762,66339,171
28113,4612,71339,556
28213,6302,76439,947
28313,8082,81640,343
28513,9902,87140,736
28614,1622,92841,401
28714,3222,98641,881
28814,4803,04742,360
28914,6373,11042,836
29014,7933,17443,310
29114,9943,24043,779
29115,2383,30744,245
29215,4803,37544,706
29315,7173,44445,162
29415,9443,51245,613
29416,1493,58246,058
29516,3383,65146,496
29516,5143,69646,736

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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