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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	North Macedonia	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,006	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,017	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,026	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,011	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,018	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,024	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,028	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,031	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,035	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,038	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,042	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,046	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,049	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,052	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,055	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,058	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,061	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	2,063	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	2,065	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	2,067	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	2,068	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	2,065	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	2,057	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	2,048	5,750

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.

All data sources

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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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; the database as a whole is cited above.