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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Austria	France
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	8,039	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	8,059	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	8,090	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	8,130	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	8,166	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	8,217	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	8,274	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	8,317	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	8,344	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	8,370	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	8,390	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	8,410	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	8,438	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,476	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,527	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,594	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,680	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,791	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,847	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,890	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,930	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,969	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	9,004	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	9,107	68,387

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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