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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	126,512	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	126,755	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	127,056	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	127,324	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	127,558	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	127,658	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	127,679	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	127,762	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	127,904	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	127,969	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	127,958	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	127,967	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	127,755	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	127,476	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	127,257	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	127,186	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	127,034	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	126,857	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	126,631	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	126,368	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	126,092	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	125,634	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	125,427	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	124,762	18,494

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, Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.