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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Central African Republic	China
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,889	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,980	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,054	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,128	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,215	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,289	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,363	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,449	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,544	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,641	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,742	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,845	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,950	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,057	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,167	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,278	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,392	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,507	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,625	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,745	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,874	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	6,025	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	6,154	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	6,291	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

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.