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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,365	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,911	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	39,411	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	39,918	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	40,416	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	40,899	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	41,374	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	41,862	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	42,324	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	42,781	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	43,264	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	43,771	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	44,225	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	44,660	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	45,081	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	45,846	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	46,290	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	46,796	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	47,385	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	48,222	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	49,326	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	50,283	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	50,978	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,332	37,914

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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