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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	36,924	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	37,336	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	37,714	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	38,079	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	38,438	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	38,800	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	39,171	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	39,556	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	39,947	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	40,343	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	40,736	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	41,401	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	41,881	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	42,360	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	42,836	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	43,310	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	43,779	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	44,245	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	44,706	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	45,162	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	45,613	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	46,058	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	46,496	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	46,736	3,876

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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