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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Indonesia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	208,105	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	211,408	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	214,475	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	217,516	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	220,549	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	224,473	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	227,534	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	230,739	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	233,918	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	237,056	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	240,140	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	243,171	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	246,150	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	249,086	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	251,947	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	254,702	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	257,351	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	259,906	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	262,379	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	264,789	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	267,142	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	269,437	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	271,674	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.