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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Indonesia	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	208,105	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	211,408	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	214,475	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	217,516	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	220,549	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	224,473	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	227,534	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	230,739	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	233,918	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	237,056	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	240,140	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	243,171	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	246,150	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	249,086	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	251,947	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	254,702	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	257,351	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	259,906	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	262,379	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	264,789	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	267,142	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	269,437	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	271,674	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	273,409	7,666

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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