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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Belgium	China
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,227	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,252	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,288	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,334	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,377	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,422	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,480	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,549	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,627	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,711	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,797	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,897	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	11,039	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	11,108	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	11,160	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	11,210	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	11,275	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,332	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,376	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,429	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,491	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,546	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,594	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	11,695	1,401,693

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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