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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Serbia	Bangladesh	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	7,611	132,907	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	7,587	135,207	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	7,574	137,420	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	7,570	139,573	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	7,551	141,650	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	7,533	143,644	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	7,510	145,546	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	7,481	147,376	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	7,451	149,047	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	7,419	150,562	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	7,389	152,189	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	7,360	153,927	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	7,304	155,634	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	7,269	157,326	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	7,234	158,999	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	7,199	160,650	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	7,162	162,273	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	7,124	163,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	7,087	165,655	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	7,048	167,358	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	7,010	169,045	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	6,964	170,709	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	6,898	172,354	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	6,833	174,217	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

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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