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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ethiopia	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	63,575	51,181	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	65,213	52,782	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	66,889	54,453	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	68,649	56,170	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	70,491	57,860	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	72,389	59,599	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	74,327	61,474	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	76,326	63,479	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	78,411	65,590	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	80,564	67,800	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	82,787	70,114	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	85,096	72,550	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	87,530	75,138	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	90,066	77,792	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	92,632	80,534	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	95,337	83,368	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	98,114	86,229	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	100,858	89,193	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	103,654	92,209	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	106,466	95,232	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	109,267	98,320	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	112,100	101,499	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	114,964	104,767	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	117,924	108,171	37,914

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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