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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	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Malaysia
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	22,132
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	22,695
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	23,291
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	23,874
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	24,437
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	24,993
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	25,543
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	26,086
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	26,620
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	27,161
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	27,715
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	28,268
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	28,750
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	29,163
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	29,568
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	29,977
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	30,387
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	30,782
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	31,164
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	31,539
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	31,903
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	32,257
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	32,603
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	108,171	32,956

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

Malaysia

1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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