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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Central African Republic	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,889	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,980	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,054	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,128	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,215	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,289	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,363	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,449	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,544	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,641	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,742	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,845	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,950	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,057	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,167	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,278	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,392	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,507	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,625	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,745	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,874	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	6,025	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	6,154	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	6,291	1,883

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

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Central African Republic, Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.