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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Oman	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	78	2,348	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	79	2,403	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	80	2,457	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	81	2,510	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	82	2,562	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	83	2,613	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	84	2,663	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	85	2,713	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	86	2,764	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	87	2,816	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	87	2,871	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	88	2,928	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	89	2,986	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	90	3,047	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	91	3,110	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	92	3,174	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	92	3,240	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	93	3,307	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	94	3,375	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	95	3,444	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	96	3,512	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	97	3,582	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	98	3,651	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	98	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.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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