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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Congo - Kinshasa	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	51,181	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	52,782	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	54,453	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	56,170	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	57,860	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	59,599	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	61,474	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	63,479	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	65,590	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	67,800	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	70,114	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	72,550	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	75,138	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	77,792	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	80,534	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	83,368	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	86,229	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	89,193	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	92,209	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	95,232	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	98,320	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	101,499	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	104,767	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	108,171	1,330

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.

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