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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Central African Republic	Argentina	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	3,889	36,924	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	3,980	37,336	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	4,054	37,714	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	4,128	38,079	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	4,215	38,438	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	4,289	38,800	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	4,363	39,171	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	4,449	39,556	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	4,544	39,947	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	4,641	40,343	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	4,742	40,736	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	4,845	41,401	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	4,950	41,881	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	5,057	42,360	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	5,167	42,836	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	5,278	43,310	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	5,392	43,779	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	5,507	44,245	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	5,625	44,706	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	5,745	45,162	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	5,874	45,613	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	6,025	46,058	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	6,154	46,496	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	6,291	46,736	3,876

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.