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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Paraguay	Poland	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	5,366	38,358	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	5,473	38,344	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	5,579	38,339	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	5,683	38,320	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	5,786	38,283	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	5,886	38,268	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	5,984	38,249	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	6,080	38,220	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	6,173	38,204	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	6,264	38,204	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	6,352	38,572	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	6,438	38,606	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	6,522	38,615	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	6,605	38,623	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	6,688	38,591	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	6,769	38,573	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	6,850	38,544	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	6,930	38,516	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	7,012	38,511	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	7,095	38,502	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	7,179	38,475	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	7,263	38,443	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	7,348	38,250	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	7,432	37,914	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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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