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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	2,059

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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