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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Belgium	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	10,227	387
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	10,252	390
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	10,288	393
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	10,334	396
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	10,377	398
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	10,422	401
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	10,480	404
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	10,549	405
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	10,627	406
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	10,711	409
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	10,797	412
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	10,897	414
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	11,039	416
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	11,108	420
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	11,160	426
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	11,210	435
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	11,275	445
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	11,332	455
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	11,376	468
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	11,429	485
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	11,491	504
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	11,546	516
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	11,594	518
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	11,695	530

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.