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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Malta	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	70	387	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	71	390	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	71	393	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	72	396	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	72	398	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	72	401	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	72	404	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	72	405	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	72	406	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	73	409	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	73	412	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	73	414	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	73	416	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	73	420	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	73	426	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	73	435	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	74	445	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	74	455	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	74	468	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	74	485	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	75	504	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	75	516	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	76	518	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	76	530	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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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