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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,358	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,344	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	38,339	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	38,320	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	38,283	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	38,268	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	38,249	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	38,220	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	38,204	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	38,204	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	38,572	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	38,606	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	38,615	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	38,623	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	38,591	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	38,573	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	38,544	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	38,516	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	38,511	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	38,502	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	38,475	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	38,443	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	38,250	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	37,914	273,409

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,

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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