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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	147,218	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	146,600	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	145,980	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	145,310	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	144,652	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	144,071	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	143,522	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	143,053	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	142,809	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	142,746	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	142,789	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	142,853	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	142,964	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	143,205	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	143,510	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	146,094	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	146,410	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	146,678	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	146,846	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	146,834	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	146,768	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	146,463	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	145,849	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	146,693	7,432

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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.