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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	3,811	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	3,901	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	3,919	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	3,923	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	3,940	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	3,975	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	3,991	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	3,993	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	3,990	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	3,987	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	3,985	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	3,983	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	3,980	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	3,977	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	3,973	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	3,968	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	3,963	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	3,957	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	3,951	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	3,944	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	3,937	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	3,929	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	3,921	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	3,876	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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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