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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Australia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	18,692	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	18,907	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	19,151	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	19,371	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	19,595	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	19,805	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	20,048	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	20,320	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	20,694	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,113	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	21,553	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	21,891	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	22,197	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	22,588	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	22,980	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	23,326	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	23,664	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	24,036	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	24,445	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	24,823	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	25,204	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	25,529	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	25,574	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	25,826	21,889

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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