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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Paraguay	Congo - Kinshasa	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	108,171	10,200

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

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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