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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	Tanzania
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	32,912
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	33,953
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	34,974
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	36,021
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	37,100
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	38,167
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	39,262
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	40,387
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	41,557
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	42,741
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	43,889
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	45,132
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	46,531
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	47,965
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	49,437
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	50,965
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	52,604
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	54,336
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	56,062
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	57,765
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	59,465
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	61,191
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	62,944
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	64,835

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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