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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Türkiye	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	65,020	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	65,949	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	66,869	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	67,728	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	68,541	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	69,366	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	70,224	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	71,106	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	71,992	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	72,909	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	73,922	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	75,054	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	76,164	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	77,141	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	78,138	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	79,199	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	80,262	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	81,350	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,412	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	83,535	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	84,737	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	85,564	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	86,346	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	87,201	9,690

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

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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