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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Indonesia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	208,105	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	211,408	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	214,475	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	217,516	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	220,549	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	224,473	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	227,534	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	230,739	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	233,918	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	237,056	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	240,140	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	243,171	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	246,150	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	249,086	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	251,947	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	254,702	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	257,351	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	259,906	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	262,379	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	264,789	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	267,142	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	269,437	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	271,674	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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