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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Argentina	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	387	36,924	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	390	37,336	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	393	37,714	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	396	38,079	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	398	38,438	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	401	38,800	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	404	39,171	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	405	39,556	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	406	39,947	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	409	40,343	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	412	40,736	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	414	41,401	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	416	41,881	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	420	42,360	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	426	42,836	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	435	43,310	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	445	43,779	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	455	44,245	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	468	44,706	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	485	45,162	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	504	45,613	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	516	46,058	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	518	46,496	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	530	46,736	5,907

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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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