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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	7,258	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	7,296	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	7,332	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,384	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,438	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,488	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,532	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	7,579	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	7,647	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	7,738	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	7,825	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	7,884	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	7,959	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	8,044	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	8,137	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	8,237	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	8,332	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	8,423	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	8,502	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	8,565	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	8,626	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	8,689	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	8,756	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	8,834	87,201

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

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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