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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Australia	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	18,692	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	18,907	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	19,151	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	19,371	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	19,595	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	19,805	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	20,048	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	20,320	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	20,694	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,113	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	21,553	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	21,891	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	22,197	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	22,588	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	22,980	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	23,326	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	23,664	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	24,036	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	24,445	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	24,823	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	25,204	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	25,529	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	25,574	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	25,826	7,432

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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.