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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Senegal	Brazil
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,070	174,320
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,305	176,902
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,576	179,389
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,864	181,721
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	11,172	183,970
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	11,498	186,165
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	11,839	188,330
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	12,204	190,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	12,584	192,450
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	12,978	194,458
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	13,382	196,464
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	13,794	198,408
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	14,226	200,152
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	14,668	201,894
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	15,121	203,614
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	15,589	205,358
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	16,066	207,148
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	16,549	208,859
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	17,044	210,537
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	17,535	212,258
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	18,021	213,940
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	18,518	215,577
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	19,016	216,720
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	19,512	217,718

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.