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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EthiopiaBurkina FasoArgentina
63,57511,07536,924
65,21311,40537,336
66,88911,82837,714
68,64912,38038,079
70,49112,82938,438
72,38913,17838,800
74,32713,54039,171
76,32613,91739,556
78,41114,30939,947
80,56414,72240,343
82,78715,15240,736
85,09615,60041,401
87,53016,06441,881
90,06616,56342,360
92,63217,07242,836
95,33717,57543,310
98,11418,09443,779
100,85818,62144,245
103,65419,15744,706
106,46619,69845,162
109,26720,24245,613
112,10020,78846,058
114,96421,33646,496
117,92421,88946,736

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.

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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