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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	17,288

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.