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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	12,060

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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