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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.