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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Ecuador	Uzbekistan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	12,268	24,701
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	12,446	25,042
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	12,629	25,372
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,827	25,696
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	13,074	25,992
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,368	26,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,661	26,540
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,915	26,812
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,133	27,081
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,352	27,347
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	14,569	27,609
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	14,786	27,869
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	15,002	28,132
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	15,218	28,398
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	15,433	28,666
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	15,647	28,934
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	15,860	29,205
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	16,072	29,480
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	16,282	29,756
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	16,489	30,031
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	16,693	30,305
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	16,894	30,576
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	17,093	30,843
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	17,288	31,337

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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