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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Senegal
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	10,070
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	10,305
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	10,576
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	10,864
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	11,172
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	11,498
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	11,839
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	12,204
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	12,584
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	12,978
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	13,382
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	13,794
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	14,226
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	14,668
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	15,121
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	15,589
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	16,066
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	16,549
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	17,044
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	17,535
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	18,021
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	18,518
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	19,016
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	19,512

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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