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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	South Korea	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	46,617	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	47,008	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	47,370	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	47,645	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	47,892	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	48,083	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	48,185	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	48,438	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	48,684	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	49,055	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	49,308	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	49,554	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	49,937	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	50,200	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	50,429	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	50,747	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	51,015	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	51,218	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	51,362	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	51,585	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	51,765	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	51,836	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	51,745	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	51,731	10,200

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

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

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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