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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Hungary	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,244	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,218	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,194	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,165	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,136	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,114	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,094	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,078	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,062	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,045	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,029	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,007	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	9,978	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	9,927	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	9,900	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	9,873	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	9,850	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	9,821	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	9,794	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	9,782	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	9,778	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	9,757	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	9,716	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	9,690	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

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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.