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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Belgium	United States
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,227	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,252	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,288	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,334	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,377	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,422	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,480	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,549	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,627	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,711	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,797	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,897	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	11,039	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	11,108	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	11,160	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	11,210	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	11,275	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,332	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,376	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,429	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,491	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,546	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,594	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	11,695	333,288

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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