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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Romania	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	22,414	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	22,262	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	22,106	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	21,931	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	21,828	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	21,704	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	21,571	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	21,443	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	21,129	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	20,779	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	20,607	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	20,485	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	20,385	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	20,296	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	20,224	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	20,151	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	20,055	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	19,938	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	19,823	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	19,713	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	19,622	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	19,496	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	19,351	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	19,266	146,693

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.