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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos	Jamaica
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,286	2,643
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,397	2,670
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,499	2,694
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,578	2,707
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,654	2,709
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,746	2,711
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,836	2,711
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,931	2,710
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,035	2,708
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	6,145	2,705
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	6,257	2,702
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	6,368	2,697
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	6,477	2,692
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	6,586	2,686
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	6,695	2,682
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	6,804	2,678
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	6,912	2,675
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	7,019	2,674
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	7,127	2,673
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	7,234	2,673
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	7,343	2,674
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	7,452	2,675
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	7,560	2,676
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	7,666	2,676

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

Jamaica

1850 - 1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)

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