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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Argentina	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	70	36,924	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	71	37,336	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	71	37,714	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,079	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,438	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,800	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	72	39,171	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	72	39,556	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	72	39,947	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	73	40,343	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	73	40,736	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	73	41,401	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	73	41,881	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	73	42,360	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	73	42,836	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	73	43,310	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	74	43,779	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	74	44,245	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	74	44,706	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	74	45,162	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	75	45,613	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	75	46,058	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	76	46,496	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	76	46,736	7,432

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

No separate list is published for Dominica, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.