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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Ecuador	Netherlands
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	12,268	15,817
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	12,446	15,932
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	12,629	16,052
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,827	16,155
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	13,074	16,231
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,368	16,288
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,661	16,326
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,915	16,352
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,133	16,388
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,352	16,452
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	14,569	16,536
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	14,786	16,621
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	15,002	16,699
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	15,218	16,761
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	15,433	16,810
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	15,647	16,871
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	15,860	16,946
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	16,072	17,036
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	16,282	17,137
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	16,489	17,238
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	16,693	17,351
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	16,894	17,448
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	17,093	17,539
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	17,288	17,709

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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