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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Israel	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,927	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	6,088	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	6,236	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	6,366	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	6,484	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	6,603	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	6,723	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	6,846	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,972	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,100	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,226	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,360	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,498	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	7,637	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	7,781	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	7,931	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,091	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,251	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,412	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,576	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,742	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,899	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	9,047	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	9,188	174,217

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

Israel

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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