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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 - KinshasaMaliArgentina
51,18110,59636,924
52,78210,83337,336
54,45310,89037,714
56,17011,00738,079
57,86011,30738,438
59,59911,57938,800
61,47411,80439,171
63,47912,04339,556
65,59012,33739,947
67,80012,65740,343
70,11412,98640,736
72,55013,32541,401
75,13813,67941,881
77,79214,04042,360
80,53414,41242,836
83,36814,80343,310
86,22915,21043,779
89,19315,62944,245
92,20916,06044,706
95,23216,50745,162
98,32016,96745,613
101,49917,44246,058
104,76717,93046,496
108,17118,49446,736

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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