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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	68,093

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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