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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Argentina	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	70	36,924	627
Dec 31, 2000	71	37,336	659
Dec 31, 2001	71	37,714	691
Dec 31, 2002	72	38,079	724
Dec 31, 2003	72	38,438	757
Dec 31, 2004	72	38,800	850
Dec 31, 2005	72	39,171	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	72	39,556	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	72	39,947	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	73	40,343	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	73	40,736	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	73	41,401	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	73	41,881	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	73	42,360	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	73	42,836	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	73	43,310	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	74	43,779	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	74	44,245	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	74	44,706	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	74	45,162	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	75	45,613	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	75	46,058	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	76	46,496	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	76	46,736	2,559

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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