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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Bangladesh	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	132,907	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	135,207	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	137,420	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	139,573	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	141,650	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	143,644	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	145,546	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	147,376	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	149,047	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	150,562	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	152,189	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	153,927	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	155,634	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	157,326	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	158,999	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	160,650	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	162,273	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	163,938	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	165,655	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	167,358	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	169,045	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	170,709	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	172,354	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	174,217	9,690

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.