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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	51,181	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	52,782	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	54,453	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	56,170	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	57,860	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	59,599	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	61,474	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	63,479	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	65,590	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	67,800	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	70,114	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	72,550	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	75,138	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	77,792	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	80,534	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	83,368	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	86,229	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	89,193	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	92,209	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	95,232	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	98,320	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	101,499	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	104,767	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	108,171	121,234

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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