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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Burkina Faso	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	11,075	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	11,405	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	11,828	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	12,380	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	12,829	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	13,178	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	13,540	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	13,917	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	14,309	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	14,722	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	15,152	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	15,600	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	16,064	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	16,563	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	17,072	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	17,575	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	18,094	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	18,621	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	19,157	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	19,698	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	20,242	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	20,788	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	21,336	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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