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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	531
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	545
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	559
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	574
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	590
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	606
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	623
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	640
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	657
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	674
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	690
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	706
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	722
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	737
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	752
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	767
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	781
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	795
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	808
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	821
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	837
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	853
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	869
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	885

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

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