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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Poland	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	38,358	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	38,344	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	38,339	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	38,320	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	38,283	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	38,268	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	38,249	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	38,220	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	38,204	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	38,204	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	38,572	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	38,606	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	38,615	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	38,623	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	38,591	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	38,573	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	38,544	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	38,516	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	38,511	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	38,502	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	38,475	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	38,443	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	38,250	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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