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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 - KinshasaOmanArgentina
51,1812,34836,924
52,7822,40337,336
54,4532,45737,714
56,1702,51038,079
57,8602,56238,438
59,5992,61338,800
61,4742,66339,171
63,4792,71339,556
65,5902,76439,947
67,8002,81640,343
70,1142,87140,736
72,5502,92841,401
75,1382,98641,881
77,7923,04742,360
80,5343,11042,836
83,3683,17443,310
86,2293,24043,779
89,1933,30744,245
92,2093,37544,706
95,2323,44445,162
98,3203,51245,613
101,4993,58246,058
104,7673,65146,496
108,1713,69646,736

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  • 1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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