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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	China	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	1,248,899	387
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	1,258,401	390
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	1,267,178	393
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	1,275,379	396
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	1,283,064	398
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	1,290,620	401
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,298,245	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,305,116	405
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,311,877	406
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,318,559	409
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,324,993	412
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,331,357	414
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,339,549	416
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	1,349,537	420
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	1,357,520	426
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	1,366,654	435
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	1,373,406	445
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	1,382,401	455
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	1,390,136	468
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	1,395,398	485
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	1,400,035	504
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	1,402,060	516
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	1,402,537	518
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	1,401,693	530

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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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