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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Congo - Kinshasa	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	51,181	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	52,782	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	54,453	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	56,170	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	57,860	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	59,599	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	61,474	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	63,479	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	65,590	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	67,800	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	70,114	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	72,550	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	75,138	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	77,792	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	80,534	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	83,368	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	86,229	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	89,193	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	92,209	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	95,232	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	98,320	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	101,499	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	104,767	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	108,171	273,409

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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