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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Congo - Kinshasa	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	51,181	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	52,782	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	54,453	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	56,170	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	57,860	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	59,599	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	61,474	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	63,479	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	65,590	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	67,800	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	70,114	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	72,550	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	75,138	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	77,792	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	80,534	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	83,368	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	86,229	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	89,193	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	92,209	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	95,232	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	98,320	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	101,499	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	104,767	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	108,171	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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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.