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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	China	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	1,248,899	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	1,258,401	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	1,267,178	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	1,275,379	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	1,283,064	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	1,290,620	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,298,245	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,305,116	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,311,877	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,318,559	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,324,993	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,331,357	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,339,549	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	1,349,537	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	1,357,520	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	1,366,654	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	1,373,406	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	1,382,401	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	1,390,136	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	1,395,398	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	1,400,035	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	1,402,060	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	1,402,537	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	1,401,693	11,695

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.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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