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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Greece	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	10,618	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	10,662	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	10,718	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	10,757	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	10,783	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	10,809	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	10,841	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	10,874	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	10,901	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	10,930	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	10,959	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	10,973	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	10,957	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	10,898	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	10,819	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	10,747	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	10,677	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	10,633	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	10,612	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	10,590	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	10,579	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	10,556	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	10,499	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	10,437	7,432

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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