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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Ghana	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	19,327	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	19,792	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	20,280	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	20,806	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	21,350	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	21,900	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	22,469	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	23,058	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	23,661	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	24,270	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	24,899	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	25,559	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	26,244	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	26,945	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	27,664	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	28,405	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	29,146	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	29,879	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	30,617	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	31,362	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	32,111	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	32,864	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	33,622	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	34,280	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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.