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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 TurkmenistanArgentinaCongo - Kinshasa
4,32436,92451,181
4,38537,33652,782
4,44437,71454,453
4,50238,07956,170
4,55638,43857,860
4,60838,80059,599
4,66439,17161,474
4,71939,55663,479
4,77339,94765,590
4,82840,34367,800
4,88440,73670,114
4,94041,40172,550
4,99641,88175,138
5,05342,36077,792
5,11042,83680,534
5,16943,31083,368
5,22743,77986,229
5,28744,24589,193
5,34644,70692,209
5,40545,16295,232
5,46445,61398,320
5,52246,058101,499
5,57946,496104,767
5,65746,736108,171

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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