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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Congo - Kinshasa	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	51,181	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	52,782	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	54,453	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	56,170	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	57,860	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	59,599	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	61,474	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	63,479	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	65,590	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	67,800	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	70,114	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	72,550	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	75,138	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	77,792	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	80,534	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	83,368	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	86,229	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	89,193	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	92,209	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	95,232	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	98,320	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	101,499	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	104,767	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE.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