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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Moldova	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	4,244	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	4,199	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,154	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,108	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,059	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,013	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,966	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,919	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,873	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,829	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,788	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,748	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,709	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	3,671	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	3,633	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	3,595	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	3,558	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,522	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,485	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,448	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,412	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	3,376	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	3,339	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	3,570	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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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