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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.