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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Hungary	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	10,244	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	10,218	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	10,194	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	10,165	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	10,136	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	10,114	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	10,094	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	10,078	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	10,062	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	10,045	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	10,029	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	10,007	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	9,978	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	9,927	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	9,900	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	9,873	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	9,850	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	9,821	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	9,794	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	9,782	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	9,778	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	9,757	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	9,716	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	9,690	108,171

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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