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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	51,731

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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