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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	3,422

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

Uruguay

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)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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