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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	10,227	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	10,252	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	10,288	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	10,334	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	10,377	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	10,422	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	10,480	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	10,549	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	10,627	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	10,711	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	10,797	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	10,897	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	11,039	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	11,108	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	11,160	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	11,210	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	11,275	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	11,332	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	11,376	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	11,429	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	11,491	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	11,546	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	11,594	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	11,695	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

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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