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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	36,924	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	37,336	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	37,714	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	38,079	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	38,438	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	38,800	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	39,171	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	39,556	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	39,947	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	40,343	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	40,736	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	41,401	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	41,881	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	42,360	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	42,836	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	43,310	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	43,779	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	44,245	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	44,706	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	45,162	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	45,613	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	46,058	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	46,496	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	46,736	34,081

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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