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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Congo - Kinshasa	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	51,181	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	52,782	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	54,453	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	56,170	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	57,860	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	59,599	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	61,474	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	63,479	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	65,590	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	67,800	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	70,114	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	72,550	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	75,138	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	77,792	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,534	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	83,368	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	86,229	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	89,193	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	92,209	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	95,232	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	98,320	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	101,499	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	104,767	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	108,171	2,059

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

Brazil

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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.