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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	France	Oman	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	60,396	2,348	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	60,811	2,403	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	61,255	2,457	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	61,703	2,510	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	62,141	2,562	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	62,600	2,613	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	63,073	2,663	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	63,513	2,713	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	63,906	2,764	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	64,264	2,816	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	64,594	2,871	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	64,913	2,928	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	65,231	2,986	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	65,552	3,047	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	65,891	3,110	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	66,212	3,174	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	66,480	3,240	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	66,730	3,307	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	67,015	3,375	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	67,347	3,444	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	67,660	3,512	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	67,901	3,582	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	68,114	3,651	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	68,387	3,696	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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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