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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Israel	Congo - Kinshasa	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	5,927	51,181	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	6,088	52,782	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	6,236	54,453	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	6,366	56,170	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	6,484	57,860	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	6,603	59,599	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	6,723	61,474	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	6,846	63,479	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	6,972	65,590	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	7,100	67,800	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	7,226	70,114	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	7,360	72,550	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	7,498	75,138	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	7,637	77,792	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	7,781	80,534	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	7,931	83,368	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	8,091	86,229	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	8,251	89,193	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	8,412	92,209	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	8,576	95,232	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	8,742	98,320	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	8,899	101,499	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	9,047	104,767	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	9,188	108,171	5,556

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

Israel

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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