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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Romania	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	22,414	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	22,262	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	22,106	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	21,931	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	21,828	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	21,704	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	21,571	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	21,443	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	21,129	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	20,779	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	20,607	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	20,485	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	20,385	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	20,296	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	20,224	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	20,151	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	20,055	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	19,938	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,823	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,713	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	19,622	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	19,496	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	19,351	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	19,266	5,216

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.