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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Yemen	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	16,728	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	17,236	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	17,762	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	18,310	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	18,855	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	19,410	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	20,000	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	20,611	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,236	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,878	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	22,533	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	23,195	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	23,880	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	24,594	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	25,311	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	26,020	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	26,698	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	27,347	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	27,985	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	28,608	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	29,216	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	29,811	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	30,399	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	31,058	11,003

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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