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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaDenmarkArgentina
51,1815,32236,924
52,7825,33937,336
54,4535,35837,714
56,1705,37738,079
57,8605,39138,438
59,5995,40438,800
61,4745,42039,171
63,4795,43839,556
65,5905,46139,947
67,8005,49440,343
70,1145,52440,736
72,5505,54841,401
75,1385,57141,881
77,7925,59242,360
80,5345,61442,836
83,3685,64443,310
86,2295,68343,779
89,1935,73044,245
92,2095,76644,706
95,2325,79545,162
98,3205,81845,613
101,4995,83146,058
104,7675,85546,496
108,1715,90746,736

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

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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