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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany	Russia	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	147,218	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	146,600	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	145,980	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	145,310	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	144,652	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	144,071	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	143,522	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	143,053	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	142,809	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	142,746	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	142,789	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	142,853	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	142,964	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	143,205	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	143,510	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	146,094	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	146,410	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	146,678	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	146,846	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	146,834	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	146,768	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	146,463	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	145,849	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	146,693	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.

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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.