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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Angola	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,334	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,676	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	12,030	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,443	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,936	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,480	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	14,012	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	14,535	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	15,084	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	15,658	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	16,260	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	16,885	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	17,525	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	18,202	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	18,908	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	19,624	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	20,354	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	21,098	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	21,859	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	22,638	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	23,437	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	24,253	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	25,089	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	25,878	83,811

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.

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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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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