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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Iceland	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	277	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	281	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	285	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	288	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	289	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	293	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	296	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	304	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	311	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	319	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	319	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	318	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	319	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	321	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	324	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	327	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	331	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	335	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	343	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	353	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	361	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	366	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	372	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	380	146,693

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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