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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	47,625

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Spain

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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