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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	Burkina Faso	Oman	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	70	11,075	2,348	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	71	11,405	2,403	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	71	11,828	2,457	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,380	2,510	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	72	12,829	2,562	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,178	2,613	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,540	2,663	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,917	2,713	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,309	2,764	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,722	2,816	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	73	15,152	2,871	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	73	15,600	2,928	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	73	16,064	2,986	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	73	16,563	3,047	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	73	17,072	3,110	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	73	17,575	3,174	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	74	18,094	3,240	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	74	18,621	3,307	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,157	3,375	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,698	3,444	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	75	20,242	3,512	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	75	20,788	3,582	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	76	21,336	3,651	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	76	21,889	3,696	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Dominica, Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.