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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	China	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	1,248,899	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	1,258,401	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	1,267,178	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	1,275,379	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	1,283,064	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	1,290,620	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,298,245	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,305,116	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,311,877	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,318,559	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,324,993	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,331,357	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,339,549	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	1,349,537	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	1,357,520	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	1,366,654	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	1,373,406	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	1,382,401	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	1,390,136	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	1,395,398	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	1,400,035	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	1,402,060	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	1,402,537	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	1,401,693	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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