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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Italy
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	56,940
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	56,966
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	57,004
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	57,114
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	57,423
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	57,852
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	58,191
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	58,424
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	58,781
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	59,236
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	59,580
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	59,844
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	60,052
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	60,216
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	60,337
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	60,346
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	60,255
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	60,140
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	60,027
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	59,902
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	59,754
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	59,464
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	59,158
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	58,966

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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