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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Estonia	Congo - Kinshasa	Singapore
Dec 31, 1999	1,378	51,181	3,959
Dec 31, 2000	1,400	52,782	4,028
Dec 31, 2001	1,391	54,453	4,138
Dec 31, 2002	1,382	56,170	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	1,374	57,860	4,115
Dec 31, 2004	1,365	59,599	4,167
Dec 31, 2005	1,357	61,474	4,266
Dec 31, 2006	1,349	63,479	4,401
Dec 31, 2007	1,341	65,590	4,589
Dec 31, 2008	1,337	67,800	4,839
Dec 31, 2009	1,334	70,114	4,988
Dec 31, 2010	1,332	72,550	5,077
Dec 31, 2011	1,328	75,138	5,184
Dec 31, 2012	1,324	77,792	5,312
Dec 31, 2013	1,319	80,534	5,399
Dec 31, 2014	1,314	83,368	5,470
Dec 31, 2015	1,312	86,229	5,535
Dec 31, 2016	1,314	89,193	5,607
Dec 31, 2017	1,314	92,209	5,612
Dec 31, 2018	1,318	95,232	5,639
Dec 31, 2019	1,323	98,320	5,704
Dec 31, 2020	1,327	101,499	5,686
Dec 31, 2021	1,329	104,767	5,716
Dec 31, 2022	1,330	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.

All data sources

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 Estonia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.