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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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