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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	23,796

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.

All data sources

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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