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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Estonia	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	387	1,378	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	390	1,400	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	393	1,391	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	396	1,382	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	398	1,374	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	401	1,365	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	404	1,357	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	405	1,349	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	406	1,341	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	409	1,337	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	412	1,334	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	414	1,332	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	416	1,328	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	420	1,324	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	426	1,319	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	435	1,314	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	445	1,312	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	455	1,314	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	468	1,314	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	485	1,318	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	504	1,323	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	516	1,327	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	518	1,329	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	530	1,330	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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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