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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Guinea	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	7,610	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	7,780	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	7,821	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	7,906	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	8,121	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	8,317	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	8,478	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	8,650	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	8,860	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	9,091	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	9,327	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	9,571	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	9,825	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	10,084	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	10,351	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	10,632	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	10,924	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	11,225	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	11,534	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	11,855	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	12,160	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	12,469	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	12,778	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	13,087	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

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 Guinea, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.