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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 MongoliaParaguayCongo - Kinshasa
2,4335,36651,181
2,4615,47352,782
2,4895,57954,453
2,5195,68356,170
2,5475,78657,860
2,5745,88659,599
2,6025,98461,474
2,6336,08063,479
2,6666,17365,590
2,7026,26467,800
2,7416,35270,114
2,7836,43872,550
2,8276,52275,138
2,8706,60577,792
2,9126,68880,534
2,9536,76983,368
2,9936,85086,229
3,0316,93089,193
3,0687,01292,209
3,1037,09595,232
3,1717,17998,320
3,2317,263101,499
3,2847,348104,767
3,3337,432108,171

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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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 Mongolia, Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.