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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	126,512	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	126,755	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	127,056	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	127,324	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	127,558	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	127,658	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	127,679	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	127,762	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	127,904	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	127,969	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	127,958	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	127,967	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	127,755	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	127,476	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	127,257	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	127,186	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	127,034	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	126,857	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	126,631	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	126,368	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	126,092	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	125,634	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	125,427	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	124,762	39,252

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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