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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	China	Congo - Kinshasa	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	1,248,899	51,181	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	1,258,401	52,782	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	1,267,178	54,453	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	1,275,379	56,170	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	1,283,064	57,860	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	1,290,620	59,599	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	1,298,245	61,474	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	1,305,116	63,479	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	1,311,877	65,590	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	1,318,559	67,800	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	1,324,993	70,114	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	1,331,357	72,550	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	1,339,549	75,138	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	1,349,537	77,792	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	1,357,520	80,534	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	1,366,654	83,368	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	1,373,406	86,229	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	1,382,401	89,193	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	1,390,136	92,209	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	1,395,398	95,232	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	1,400,035	98,320	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	1,402,060	101,499	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	1,402,537	104,767	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	1,401,693	108,171	3,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.