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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	174,217

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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