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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 MoroccoBurkina FasoArgentina
28,40011,07536,924
28,74411,40537,336
29,09411,82837,714
29,44712,38038,079
29,80612,82938,438
30,16913,17838,800
30,55213,54039,171
30,95313,91739,556
31,35414,30939,947
31,75414,72240,343
32,15415,15240,736
32,55315,60041,401
32,95116,06441,881
33,34616,56342,360
33,73717,07242,836
34,12417,57543,310
34,51118,09443,779
34,89818,62144,245
35,27919,15744,706
35,65319,69845,162
36,01820,24245,613
36,37520,78846,058
36,72321,33646,496
37,10121,88946,736

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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