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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Turkmenistan	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	4,324	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	4,385	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	4,444	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	4,502	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	4,556	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	4,608	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	4,664	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	4,719	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	4,773	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	4,828	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	4,884	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	4,940	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	4,996	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	5,053	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	5,110	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	5,169	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	5,227	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	5,287	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	5,346	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	5,405	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	5,464	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	5,522	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	5,579	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	5,657	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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