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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	36,924	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	37,336	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	37,714	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	38,079	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	38,438	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	38,800	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	39,171	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	39,556	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	39,947	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	40,343	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	40,736	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	41,401	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	41,881	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	42,360	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	42,836	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	43,310	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	43,779	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	44,245	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	44,706	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	45,162	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	45,613	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	46,058	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	46,496	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	46,736	108,171

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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.