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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	New Zealand	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	3,890	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	3,912	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	3,947	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	4,018	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	4,094	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	4,151	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	4,198	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	4,248	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	4,287	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	4,323	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	4,370	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	4,416	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	4,446	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	4,471	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	4,516	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	4,597	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	4,695	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	4,800	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	4,897	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	4,982	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	5,074	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	5,159	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	5,188	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	5,245	108,171

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

New Zealand

1870-1939: K. Rankin, "New Zealand's Gross National Product: 1859-1939, Review of Income and Wealth, March 1992, pp. 60-1., 1870 amended to include indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita)
1939-50: C. Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, third edition, Macmillan, London, 1957, pp. 171-2

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