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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	Saudi Arabia	Burkina Faso	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	11,075	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	11,405	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	11,828	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	12,380	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	12,829	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	13,178	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	13,540	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	13,917	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	14,309	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	14,722	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	15,152	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	15,600	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	16,064	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	16,563	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	17,072	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	17,575	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	18,094	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	18,621	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	19,157	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	19,698	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	20,242	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	20,788	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	21,336	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	21,889	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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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