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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaMoldovaSingapore
51,1814,2443,959
52,7824,1994,028
54,4534,1544,138
56,1704,1084,176
57,8604,0594,115
59,5994,0134,167
61,4743,9664,266
63,4793,9194,401
65,5903,8734,589
67,8003,8294,839
70,1143,7884,988
72,5503,7485,077
75,1383,7095,184
77,7923,6715,312
80,5343,6335,399
83,3683,5955,470
86,2293,5585,535
89,1933,5225,607
92,2093,4855,612
95,2323,4485,639
98,3203,4125,704
101,4993,3765,686
104,7673,3395,716
108,1713,5705,750

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

Singapore

  • 1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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