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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	47,625

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)