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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Burkina Faso	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	11,075	277
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	11,405	281
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	11,828	285
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	12,380	288
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	12,829	289
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	13,178	293
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	13,540	296
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	13,917	304
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	14,309	311
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	14,722	319
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	15,152	319
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	15,600	318
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	16,064	319
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	16,563	321
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	17,072	324
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	17,575	327
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	18,094	331
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	18,621	335
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,157	343
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,698	353
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	20,242	361
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	20,788	366
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	21,336	372
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	21,889	380

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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