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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Congo - Kinshasa	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	51,181	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	52,782	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	54,453	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	56,170	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	57,860	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	59,599	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	61,474	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	63,479	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	65,590	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	67,800	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	70,114	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	72,550	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	75,138	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	77,792	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	80,534	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	83,368	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	86,229	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	89,193	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	92,209	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	95,232	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	98,320	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	101,499	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	104,767	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	108,171	121,234

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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