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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	7,258	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	7,296	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	7,332	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,384	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,438	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,488	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,532	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	7,579	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	7,647	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,738	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,825	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,884	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,959	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,044	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,137	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,237	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,332	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,423	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,502	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,565	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,626	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,689	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	8,756	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	8,834	273,409

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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