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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	Uruguay
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	51,181	3,234
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	52,782	3,246
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	54,453	3,257
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	56,170	3,268
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	57,860	3,277
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	59,599	3,285
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	61,474	3,291
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	63,479	3,298
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	65,590	3,305
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	67,800	3,313
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	70,114	3,321
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	72,550	3,329
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	75,138	3,337
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	77,792	3,345
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	80,534	3,353
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	83,368	3,362
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	86,229	3,371
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	89,193	3,380
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	92,209	3,390
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	95,232	3,399
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	98,320	3,408
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	101,499	3,417
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	104,767	3,426
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	108,171	3,422

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

Uruguay

1800-1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1870–2014: Bèrtola, L. (2016). El PIB per Capita de Uruguay 1870 - 2016: una reconstruccion. PHES working paper No 48

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