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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	19,715

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.