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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Chile	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	15,140	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	15,340	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	15,513	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	15,686	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	15,859	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	16,029	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	16,222	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	16,364	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	16,536	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	16,700	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	16,864	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	16,999	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	17,189	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	17,378	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,545	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,720	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	17,904	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,099	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	18,350	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	18,681	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	19,035	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	19,385	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	19,604	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	19,715	7,169

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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