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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	North Macedonia	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	2,006	51,181	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	2,017	52,782	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	2,026	54,453	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	2,011	56,170	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	2,018	57,860	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	2,024	59,599	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	2,028	61,474	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	2,031	63,479	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	2,035	65,590	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	2,038	67,800	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	2,042	70,114	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	2,046	72,550	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	2,049	75,138	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	2,052	77,792	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	2,055	80,534	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	2,058	83,368	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	2,061	86,229	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	2,063	89,193	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	2,065	92,209	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	2,067	95,232	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	2,068	98,320	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	2,065	101,499	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	2,057	104,767	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	2,048	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.

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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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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