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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	3,228

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

No separate list is published for Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.