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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	146,693

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.

All data sources

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.