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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 ArgentinaSeychellesCongo - Kinshasa
36,9247851,181
37,3367952,782
37,7148054,453
38,0798156,170
38,4388257,860
38,8008359,599
39,1718461,474
39,5568563,479
39,9478665,590
40,3438767,800
40,7368770,114
41,4018872,550
41,8818975,138
42,3609077,792
42,8369180,534
43,3109283,368
43,7799286,229
44,2459389,193
44,7069492,209
45,1629595,232
45,6139698,320
46,05897101,499
46,49698104,767
46,73698108,171

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

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