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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland	France
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,358	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,344	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	38,339	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	38,320	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	38,283	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	38,268	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	38,249	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	38,220	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	38,204	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	38,204	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	38,572	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	38,606	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	38,615	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	38,623	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	38,591	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	38,573	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	38,544	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	38,516	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	38,511	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	38,502	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	38,475	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	38,443	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	38,250	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	37,914	68,387

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,

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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