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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Mexico
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	97,242
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	98,403
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	99,599
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	100,863
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	102,132
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	103,334
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	104,508
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	105,738
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	107,083
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	108,554
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	110,061
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	111,468
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	112,826
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	114,163
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	115,471
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	116,757
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	118,017
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	117,444
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	118,799
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	120,289
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	121,872
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	123,260
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	124,462
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	125,247

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350