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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Netherlands	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	15,817	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	15,932	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	16,052	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	16,155	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	16,231	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	16,288	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	16,326	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	16,352	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	16,388	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	16,452	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	16,536	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	16,621	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,699	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,761	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	16,810	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	16,871	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	16,946	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	17,036	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	17,137	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	17,238	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	17,351	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	17,448	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	17,539	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	17,709	68,457

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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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