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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Singapore	Congo - Kinshasa	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	3,959	51,181	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	4,028	52,782	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	4,138	54,453	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	4,176	56,170	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	4,115	57,860	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	4,167	59,599	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	4,266	61,474	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	4,401	63,479	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	4,589	65,590	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	4,839	67,800	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	4,988	70,114	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	5,077	72,550	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	5,184	75,138	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	5,312	77,792	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	5,399	80,534	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	5,470	83,368	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	5,535	86,229	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	5,607	89,193	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	5,612	92,209	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	5,639	95,232	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	5,704	98,320	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	5,686	101,499	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	5,716	104,767	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	5,750	108,171	6,291

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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