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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	5,556

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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