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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Hong Kong SAR China	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	277	6,587	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,646	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,695	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	288	6,725	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	289	6,712	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	6,765	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	296	6,794	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	304	6,838	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,897	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,938	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,953	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,004	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,052	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	321	7,130	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,159	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	327	7,209	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	331	7,271	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	335	7,316	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	343	7,372	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	353	7,432	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	361	7,487	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	366	7,460	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	372	7,392	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	380	7,387	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.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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