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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Yemen	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	16,728	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	17,236	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	17,762	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	18,310	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	18,855	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	19,410	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	20,000	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	20,611	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,236	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,878	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	22,533	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	23,195	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	23,880	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	24,594	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	25,311	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	26,020	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	26,698	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	27,347	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	27,985	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	28,608	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	29,216	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	29,811	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	30,399	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	31,058	273,409

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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