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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	Latvia	Congo - Kinshasa	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	2,386	51,181	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	2,363	52,782	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	2,333	54,453	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	2,306	56,170	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	2,284	57,860	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	2,259	59,599	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	2,235	61,474	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	2,215	63,479	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	2,197	65,590	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	2,174	67,800	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	2,138	70,114	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	2,093	72,550	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	2,055	75,138	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	2,030	77,792	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	2,009	80,534	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	1,991	83,368	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	1,974	86,229	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	1,956	89,193	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	1,938	92,209	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	1,923	95,232	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	1,910	98,320	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	1,897	101,499	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	1,880	104,767	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	1,883	108,171	1,330

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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GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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