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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	126,512	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	126,755	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	127,056	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	127,324	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	127,558	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	127,658	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	127,679	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	127,762	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	127,904	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	127,969	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	127,958	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	127,967	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	127,755	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	127,476	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	127,257	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	127,186	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	127,034	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	126,857	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	126,631	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	126,368	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	126,092	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	125,634	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	125,427	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	124,762	51,731

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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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