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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Central African Republic	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	3,889	387
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	3,980	390
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	4,054	393
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	4,128	396
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	4,215	398
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	4,289	401
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	4,363	404
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	4,449	405
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	4,544	406
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	4,641	409
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	4,742	412
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	4,845	414
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	4,950	416
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	5,057	420
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	5,167	426
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	5,278	435
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	5,392	445
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	5,507	455
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	5,625	468
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	5,745	485
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	5,874	504
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	6,025	516
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	6,154	518
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	6,291	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.

All data sources

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Central African Republic, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.