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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	51,181	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	52,782	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	54,453	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	56,170	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	57,860	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	59,599	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	61,474	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	63,479	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	65,590	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	67,800	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	70,114	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	72,550	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	75,138	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	77,792	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	80,534	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	83,368	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	86,229	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	89,193	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	92,209	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	95,232	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	98,320	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	101,499	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	104,767	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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