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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Jamaica	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	2,643	51,181	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	2,670	52,782	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	2,694	54,453	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	2,707	56,170	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	2,709	57,860	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	2,711	59,599	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	2,711	61,474	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	2,710	63,479	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	2,708	65,590	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	2,705	67,800	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	2,702	70,114	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	2,697	72,550	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	2,692	75,138	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	2,686	77,792	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	2,682	80,534	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	2,678	83,368	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	2,675	86,229	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	2,674	89,193	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	2,673	92,209	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	2,673	95,232	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	2,674	98,320	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	2,675	101,499	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	2,676	104,767	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	2,676	108,171	7,666

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

Jamaica

1850 - 1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)

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