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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,286	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,397	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,499	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,578	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,654	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,746	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,836	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,931	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,035	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	6,145	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	6,257	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	6,368	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	6,477	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	6,586	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	6,695	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	6,804	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	6,912	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	7,019	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	7,127	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	7,234	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	7,343	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	7,452	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	7,560	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	7,666	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

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