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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	147,218	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	146,600	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	145,980	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	145,310	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	144,652	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	144,071	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	143,522	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	143,053	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	142,809	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	142,746	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	142,789	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	142,853	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	142,964	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	143,205	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	143,510	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	146,094	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	146,410	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	146,678	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	146,846	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	146,834	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	146,768	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	146,463	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	145,849	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	146,693	46,498

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