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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Yemen	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	277	16,728	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	281	17,236	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	285	17,762	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	288	18,310	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	289	18,855	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	19,410	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	296	20,000	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	304	20,611	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,236	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	319	21,878	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	319	22,533	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	318	23,195	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	319	23,880	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,594	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	324	25,311	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	327	26,020	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	331	26,698	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	335	27,347	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	343	27,985	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	353	28,608	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	361	29,216	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	366	29,811	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	372	30,399	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	380	31,058	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.