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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	37,914

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,