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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Lithuania	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	3,419	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	3,395	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	3,367	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	3,340	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	3,313	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	3,276	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	3,223	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	3,172	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	3,134	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	3,102	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	3,068	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	3,004	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,937	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	2,898	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	2,869	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	2,844	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	2,818	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	2,782	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	2,744	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	2,718	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	2,710	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	2,711	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	2,724	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	2,748	46,498

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Lithuania, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.