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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	81,439	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	81,474	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	81,534	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	81,595	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	81,566	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	81,473	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	81,354	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	81,190	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	81,009	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	80,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	80,500	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	80,301	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	80,292	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	80,443	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	80,663	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	81,000	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	81,704	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	82,366	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	82,674	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	82,923	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	83,110	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	83,178	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	83,213	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	83,811	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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