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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date ArgentinaGermanyCongo - Kinshasa
36,92481,43951,181
37,33681,47452,782
37,71481,53454,453
38,07981,59556,170
38,43881,56657,860
38,80081,47359,599
39,17181,35461,474
39,55681,19063,479
39,94781,00965,590
40,34380,78167,800
40,73680,50070,114
41,40180,30172,550
41,88180,29275,138
42,36080,44377,792
42,83680,66380,534
43,31081,00083,368
43,77981,70486,229
44,24582,36689,193
44,70682,67492,209
45,16282,92395,232
45,61383,11098,320
46,05883,178101,499
46,49683,213104,767
46,73683,811108,171

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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