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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SingaporeMoldovaCongo - Kinshasa
3,9594,24451,181
4,0284,19952,782
4,1384,15454,453
4,1764,10856,170
4,1154,05957,860
4,1674,01359,599
4,2663,96661,474
4,4013,91963,479
4,5893,87365,590
4,8393,82967,800
4,9883,78870,114
5,0773,74872,550
5,1843,70975,138
5,3123,67177,792
5,3993,63380,534
5,4703,59583,368
5,5353,55886,229
5,6073,52289,193
5,6123,48592,209
5,6393,44895,232
5,7043,41298,320
5,6863,376101,499
5,7163,339104,767
5,7503,570108,171

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

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 Moldova, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.