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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	China	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	1,248,899	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	1,258,401	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	1,267,178	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	1,275,379	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	1,283,064	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	1,290,620	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,298,245	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,305,116	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,311,877	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,318,559	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,324,993	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,331,357	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,339,549	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	1,349,537	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	1,357,520	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	1,366,654	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	1,373,406	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	1,382,401	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	1,390,136	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	1,395,398	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	1,400,035	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	1,402,060	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	1,402,537	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	1,401,693	3,696

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.

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