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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Oman	Argentina	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	2,348	36,924	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	2,403	37,336	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	2,457	37,714	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	2,510	38,079	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	2,562	38,438	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	2,613	38,800	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	2,663	39,171	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	2,713	39,556	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	2,764	39,947	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	2,816	40,343	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	2,871	40,736	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	2,928	41,401	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	2,986	41,881	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	3,047	42,360	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	3,110	42,836	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	3,174	43,310	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	3,240	43,779	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	3,307	44,245	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	3,375	44,706	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	3,444	45,162	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	3,512	45,613	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	3,582	46,058	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	3,651	46,496	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	3,696	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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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 Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.