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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Oman	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	2,348	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	2,403	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	2,457	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	2,510	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	2,562	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	2,613	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	2,663	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	2,713	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	2,764	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	2,816	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	2,871	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	2,928	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	2,986	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,047	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,110	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,174	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,240	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,307	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,375	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,444	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,512	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,582	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,651	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,696	63,382

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.