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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Cambodia	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	12,122	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	12,317	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	12,504	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,691	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,881	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,076	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,276	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,461	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	13,630	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	13,808	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	13,990	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	14,162	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	14,322	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	14,480	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	14,637	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	14,793	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	14,994	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	15,238	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	15,480	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	15,717	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	15,944	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	16,149	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	16,338	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	16,514	10,200

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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