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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	38,358	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	38,344	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	38,339	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	38,320	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	38,283	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	38,268	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	38,249	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	38,220	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	38,204	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	38,204	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	38,572	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	38,606	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	38,615	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	38,623	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	38,591	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	38,573	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	38,544	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	38,516	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	38,511	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	38,502	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	38,475	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	38,443	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	38,250	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	37,914	34,081

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,

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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