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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Russia	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	147,218	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	146,600	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	145,980	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	145,310	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	144,652	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	144,071	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	143,522	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	143,053	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	142,809	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	142,746	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	142,789	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	142,853	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	142,964	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	143,205	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	143,510	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	146,094	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	146,410	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	146,678	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	146,846	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	146,834	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	146,768	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	146,463	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	145,849	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	146,693	37,914

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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,

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