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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Brazil	France
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	174,320	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	176,902	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	179,389	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	181,721	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	183,970	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	186,165	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	188,330	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	190,438	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	192,450	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	194,458	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	196,464	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	198,408	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	200,152	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	201,894	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	203,614	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	205,358	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	207,148	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	208,859	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	210,537	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	212,258	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	213,940	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	215,577	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	216,720	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	217,718	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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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.