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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	Madagascar
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	15,259
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	15,707
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	16,162
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	16,631
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	17,114
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	17,610
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	18,120
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	18,641
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	19,173
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	19,717
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	20,272
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	20,837
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	21,413
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	21,999
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	22,593
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	23,196
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	23,806
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	24,423
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	25,044
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	25,671
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	26,302
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	26,936
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	27,573
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	28,237

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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