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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	Dominica	Argentina	Oman	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	70	36,924	2,348	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	71	37,336	2,403	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	71	37,714	2,457	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,079	2,510	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,438	2,562	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,800	2,613	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	72	39,171	2,663	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	72	39,556	2,713	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	72	39,947	2,764	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	73	40,343	2,816	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	73	40,736	2,871	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	73	41,401	2,928	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	73	41,881	2,986	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	73	42,360	3,047	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	73	42,836	3,110	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	73	43,310	3,174	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	74	43,779	3,240	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	74	44,245	3,307	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	74	44,706	3,375	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	74	45,162	3,444	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	75	45,613	3,512	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	75	46,058	3,582	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	76	46,496	3,651	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	76	46,736	3,696	21,889

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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