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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	126,512	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	126,755	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	127,056	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	127,324	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	127,558	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	127,658	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	127,679	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	127,762	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	127,904	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	127,969	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	127,958	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	127,967	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	127,755	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	127,476	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	127,257	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	127,186	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	127,034	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	126,857	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	126,631	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	126,368	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	126,092	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	125,634	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	125,427	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	124,762	19,715

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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