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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	36,924	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	37,336	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	37,714	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	38,079	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	38,438	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	38,800	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	39,171	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	39,556	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	39,947	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	40,343	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	40,736	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	41,401	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	41,881	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	42,360	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	42,836	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	43,310	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	43,779	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	44,245	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	44,706	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	45,162	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	45,613	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	46,058	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	46,496	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	46,736	2,748

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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