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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Mali	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,596	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,833	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,890	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	11,007	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	11,307	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	11,579	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	11,804	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	12,043	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	12,337	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	12,657	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	12,986	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	13,325	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	13,679	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	14,040	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	14,412	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	14,803	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	15,210	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	15,629	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	16,060	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	16,507	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	16,967	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	17,442	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	17,930	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	18,494	2,059

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, Mali, Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.