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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Singapore	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,959	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	4,028	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,138	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,176	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,115	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,167	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,266	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,401	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,589	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,839	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,988	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	5,077	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	5,184	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,312	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,399	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,470	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,535	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,607	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,612	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,639	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,704	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	5,686	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,716	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,750	83,811

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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