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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.