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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	108,171	8,834

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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

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