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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	387	36,924	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	390	37,336	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	393	37,714	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	396	38,079	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	398	38,438	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	401	38,800	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	404	39,171	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	405	39,556	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	406	39,947	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	409	40,343	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	412	40,736	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	414	41,401	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	416	41,881	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	420	42,360	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	426	42,836	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	435	43,310	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	445	43,779	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	455	44,245	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	468	44,706	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	485	45,162	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	504	45,613	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	516	46,058	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	518	46,496	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	530	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.

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

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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