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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Estonia	Congo - Kinshasa	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	1,378	51,181	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	1,400	52,782	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	1,391	54,453	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	1,382	56,170	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	1,374	57,860	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	1,365	59,599	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	1,357	61,474	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	1,349	63,479	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	1,341	65,590	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	1,337	67,800	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	1,334	70,114	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	1,332	72,550	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	1,328	75,138	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	1,324	77,792	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	1,319	80,534	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	1,314	83,368	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	1,312	86,229	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	1,314	89,193	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	1,314	92,209	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	1,318	95,232	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	1,323	98,320	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	1,327	101,499	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	1,329	104,767	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	1,330	108,171	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 Estonia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.