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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Argentina	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	36,924	5,366	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	37,336	5,473	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	37,714	5,579	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	38,079	5,683	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	38,438	5,786	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	38,800	5,886	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	39,171	5,984	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	39,556	6,080	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	39,947	6,173	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	40,343	6,264	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	40,736	6,352	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	41,401	6,438	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	41,881	6,522	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	42,360	6,605	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	42,836	6,688	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	43,310	6,769	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	43,779	6,850	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	44,245	6,930	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	44,706	7,012	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	45,162	7,095	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	45,613	7,179	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	46,058	7,263	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	46,496	7,348	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	46,736	7,432	108,171

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.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.