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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Chile	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	277	15,140	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	281	15,340	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	285	15,513	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	288	15,686	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	289	15,859	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	16,029	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	296	16,222	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	304	16,364	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	311	16,536	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	319	16,700	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	319	16,864	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	318	16,999	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	319	17,189	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	321	17,378	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,545	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,720	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	331	17,904	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,099	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	343	18,350	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	353	18,681	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,035	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,385	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,604	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,715	46,736

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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