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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Latvia	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,386	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,363	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,333	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,306	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,284	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,259	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,235	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,215	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,197	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,174	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,138	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,093	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,055	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,030	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,009	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	1,991	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	1,974	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	1,956	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	1,938	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	1,923	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	1,910	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	1,897	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	1,880	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	1,883	21,889

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

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