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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	51,181	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	52,782	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	54,453	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	56,170	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	57,860	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	59,599	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	61,474	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	63,479	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	65,590	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	67,800	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	70,114	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	72,550	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	75,138	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	77,792	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	80,534	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	83,368	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	86,229	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	89,193	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	92,209	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	95,232	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	98,320	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	101,499	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	104,767	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	108,171	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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