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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	38,365	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	38,911	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	39,411	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	39,918	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	40,416	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	40,899	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	41,374	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	41,862	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	42,324	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	42,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	43,264	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	43,771	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	44,225	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	44,660	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	45,081	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	45,846	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	46,290	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	46,796	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	47,385	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	48,222	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	49,326	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	50,283	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	50,978	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	51,332	108,171

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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