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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	United States	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	279,040	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	282,162	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	284,969	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	287,625	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	290,108	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	292,805	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	295,517	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	298,380	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	301,231	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	304,094	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	306,772	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	309,327	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	311,583	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	313,878	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	316,060	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	318,386	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	320,739	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	323,072	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	325,122	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	326,838	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	328,330	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	331,512	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	332,032	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	333,288	47,625

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.

All data sources

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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