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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ArgentinaCongo - KinshasaGuinea
36,92451,1817,610
37,33652,7827,780
37,71454,4537,821
38,07956,1707,906
38,43857,8608,121
38,80059,5998,317
39,17161,4748,478
39,55663,4798,650
39,94765,5908,860
40,34367,8009,091
40,73670,1149,327
41,40172,5509,571
41,88175,1389,825
42,36077,79210,084
42,83680,53410,351
43,31083,36810,632
43,77986,22910,924
44,24589,19311,225
44,70692,20911,534
45,16295,23211,855
45,61398,32012,160
46,058101,49912,469
46,496104,76712,778
46,736108,17113,087

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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