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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	7,258	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	7,296	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	7,332	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,384	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,438	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,488	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,532	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	7,579	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	7,647	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,738	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,825	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,884	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,959	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,044	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,137	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,237	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,332	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,423	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,502	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,565	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,626	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,689	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	8,756	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	8,834	51,332

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

Colombia

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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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