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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Mongolia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	2,433	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	2,461	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	2,489	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	2,519	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	2,547	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	2,574	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	2,602	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	2,633	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	2,666	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	2,702	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	2,741	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	2,783	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	2,827	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	2,870	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	2,912	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	2,953	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	2,993	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	3,031	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	3,068	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	3,103	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	3,171	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	3,231	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	3,284	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	3,333	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

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, Mongolia; the database as a whole is cited above.