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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	531
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	545
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	559
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	574
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	590
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	606
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	623
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	640
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	657
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	674
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	690
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	706
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	722
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	737
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	752
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	767
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	781
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	795
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	808
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	821
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	837
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	853
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	869
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Oman, Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.