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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Finland	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,166	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,176	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,188	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,201	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,213	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,228	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,246	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,266	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	5,289	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	5,313	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	5,339	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	5,363	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	5,388	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,414	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,439	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,463	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,481	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,495	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,508	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,516	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,522	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,531	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,542	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,556	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

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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.