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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	Sri Lanka	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,354	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,610	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,838	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,060	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	20,297	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	20,529	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,703	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,917	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,120	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,315	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,503	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,713	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	21,918	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,120	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,320	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	22,517	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	22,711	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	22,899	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	23,080	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	23,254	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	23,420	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	23,579	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	23,732	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	23,796	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.