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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Canada	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	30,510	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	30,796	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	31,132	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	31,473	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	31,758	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	32,055	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	32,360	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	32,688	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	33,007	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	33,367	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	33,750	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	34,127	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	34,463	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	34,839	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	35,209	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	35,565	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	35,831	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	36,239	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	36,677	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	37,198	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	37,736	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	38,174	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	38,383	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	38,685	8,834

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK