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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Liberia	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	2,741	51,181	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	2,847	52,782	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	2,917	54,453	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	2,978	56,170	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	2,983	57,860	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	3,005	59,599	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	3,138	61,474	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	3,311	63,479	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	3,469	65,590	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	3,603	67,800	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	3,708	70,114	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	3,817	72,550	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	3,984	75,138	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	4,141	77,792	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	4,244	80,534	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	4,348	83,368	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	4,460	86,229	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	4,576	89,193	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	4,689	92,209	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	4,810	95,232	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	4,904	98,320	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	5,005	101,499	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	5,109	104,767	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	5,216	108,171	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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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