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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Benin	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	6,461	36,924	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	6,677	37,336	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	6,902	37,714	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	7,130	38,079	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	7,360	38,438	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	7,589	38,800	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	7,838	39,171	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	8,089	39,556	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	8,335	39,947	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	8,603	40,343	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	8,884	40,736	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	9,179	41,401	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	9,486	41,881	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	9,805	42,360	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	10,135	42,836	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	10,480	43,310	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	10,842	43,779	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	11,220	44,245	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	11,613	44,706	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	12,018	45,162	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	12,370	45,613	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	12,725	46,058	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	13,081	46,496	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	13,439	46,736	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.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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