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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	7,387

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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