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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	21,889

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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