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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Mexico	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	97,242	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	98,403	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	99,599	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	100,863	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	102,132	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	103,334	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	104,508	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	105,738	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	107,083	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	108,554	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	110,061	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	111,468	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	112,826	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	114,163	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	115,471	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	116,757	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	118,017	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	117,444	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	118,799	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	120,289	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	121,872	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	123,260	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	124,462	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	125,247	8,834

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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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