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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 BarbadosPalestinian TerritoriesOmanArgentina
2732,9962,34836,924
2743,0752,40337,336
2753,1552,45737,714
2763,2352,51038,079
2783,3152,56238,438
2793,3962,61338,800
2803,4782,66339,171
2813,5592,71339,556
2823,6422,76439,947
2833,7272,81640,343
2853,8172,87140,736
2863,9072,92841,401
2873,9972,98641,881
2884,0883,04742,360
2894,1783,11042,836
2904,2693,17443,310
2914,3593,24043,779
2914,4513,30744,245
2924,5333,37544,706
2934,6153,44445,162
2944,7153,51245,613
2944,8203,58246,058
2954,9303,65146,496
2955,0423,69646,736

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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