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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Denmark	Congo - Kinshasa	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	5,322	51,181	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	5,339	52,782	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	5,358	54,453	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	5,377	56,170	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	5,391	57,860	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	5,404	59,599	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	5,420	61,474	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	5,438	63,479	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	5,461	65,590	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	5,494	67,800	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	5,524	70,114	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	5,548	72,550	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	5,571	75,138	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	5,592	77,792	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	5,614	80,534	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	5,644	83,368	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	5,683	86,229	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	5,730	89,193	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	5,766	92,209	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	5,795	95,232	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	5,818	98,320	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	5,831	101,499	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	5,855	104,767	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	5,907	108,171	5,750

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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