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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Puerto Rico	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	3,800	433
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	3,811	438
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	3,819	443
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	3,824	448
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	3,826	454
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	3,827	460
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	3,822	467
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	3,805	474
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	3,783	482
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	3,761	491
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	3,741	500
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	3,722	509
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	3,679	521
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	3,636	533
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	3,589	547
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	3,534	560
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	3,473	571
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	3,411	586
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	3,352	599
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	3,295	610
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	3,268	623
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	3,247	633
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	3,232	643
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	3,228	651

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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