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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date North MacedoniaHong Kong SAR ChinaCongo - Kinshasa
2,0066,58751,181
2,0176,64652,782
2,0266,69554,453
2,0116,72556,170
2,0186,71257,860
2,0246,76559,599
2,0286,79461,474
2,0316,83863,479
2,0356,89765,590
2,0386,93867,800
2,0426,95370,114
2,0467,00472,550
2,0497,05275,138
2,0527,13077,792
2,0557,15980,534
2,0587,20983,368
2,0617,27186,229
2,0637,31689,193
2,0657,37292,209
2,0677,43295,232
2,0687,48798,320
2,0657,460101,499
2,0577,392104,767
2,0487,387108,171

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

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Hong Kong SAR China, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.