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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Hungary	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	10,244	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	10,218	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	10,194	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	10,165	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	10,136	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	10,114	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	10,094	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	10,078	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	10,062	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	10,045	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	10,029	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	10,007	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	9,978	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	9,927	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	9,900	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	9,873	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	9,850	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	9,821	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	9,794	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	9,782	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	9,778	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	9,757	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	9,716	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	9,690	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

Bangladesh

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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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