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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	St. Lucia	Oman	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	152	2,348	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	153	2,403	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	154	2,457	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	155	2,510	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	156	2,562	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	157	2,613	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	157	2,663	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	158	2,713	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	159	2,764	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	160	2,816	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	160	2,871	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	161	2,928	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	162	2,986	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	162	3,047	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	163	3,110	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	163	3,174	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	164	3,240	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	164	3,307	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	165	3,375	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	166	3,444	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	166	3,512	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	167	3,582	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	167	3,651	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	167	3,696	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.

All data sources

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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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