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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Bolivia	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	8,007	627
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	8,177	659
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	8,351	691
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	8,529	724
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	8,711	757
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	8,895	850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	9,081	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	9,268	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	9,457	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	9,647	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	9,836	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,024	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	10,211	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	10,397	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,581	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,763	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,942	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,118	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,289	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,456	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,621	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,775	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,917	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	12,060	2,559

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