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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	147,218	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	146,600	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	145,980	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	145,310	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	144,652	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	144,071	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	143,522	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	143,053	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	142,809	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	142,746	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	142,789	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	142,853	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	142,964	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	143,205	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	143,510	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	146,094	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	146,410	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	146,678	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	146,846	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	146,834	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	146,768	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	146,463	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	145,849	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	146,693	6,291

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.