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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	7,258	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	7,296	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	7,332	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,384	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,438	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,488	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,532	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	7,579	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	7,647	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,738	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,825	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,884	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,959	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,044	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,137	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,237	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,332	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,423	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,502	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,565	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,626	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,689	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	8,756	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	8,834	46,736

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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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