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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Thailand	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	59,748	433
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	60,165	438
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	60,746	443
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	61,323	448
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	61,884	454
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	62,425	460
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	62,956	467
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,467	474
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	63,937	482
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	64,381	491
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	64,804	500
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	65,208	509
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	65,599	521
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	65,970	533
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	66,332	547
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	66,673	560
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	66,975	571
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	67,250	586
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	67,506	599
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	67,750	610
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	67,975	623
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	68,180	633
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	68,366	643
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	68,457	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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