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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	7,258	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	7,296	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	7,332	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,384	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,438	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,488	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,532	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	7,579	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	7,647	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,738	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,825	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,884	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,959	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,044	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,137	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,237	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,332	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,423	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,502	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,565	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,626	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,689	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	8,756	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	8,834	51,731

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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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