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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaDominicaSingapore
51,181703,959
52,782714,028
54,453714,138
56,170724,176
57,860724,115
59,599724,167
61,474724,266
63,479724,401
65,590724,589
67,800734,839
70,114734,988
72,550735,077
75,138735,184
77,792735,312
80,534735,399
83,368735,470
86,229745,535
89,193745,607
92,209745,612
95,232745,639
98,320755,704
101,499755,686
104,767765,716
108,171765,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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