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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Yemen	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	16,728	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	17,236	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	17,762	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	18,310	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	18,855	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	19,410	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	20,000	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	20,611	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,236	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,878	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	22,533	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	23,195	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	23,880	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	24,594	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	25,311	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	26,020	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	26,698	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	27,347	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	27,985	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	28,608	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	29,216	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	29,811	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	30,399	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	31,058	12,060

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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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