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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Greece	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	10,618	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	10,662	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	10,718	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	10,757	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	10,783	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	10,809	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	10,841	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	10,874	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	10,901	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	10,930	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	10,959	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	10,973	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	10,957	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	10,898	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	10,819	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	10,747	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	10,677	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	10,633	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	10,612	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	10,590	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	10,579	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	10,556	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	10,499	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	10,437	46,736

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.