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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	5,907

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.

All data sources

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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