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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Hungary	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	10,244	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	10,218	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	10,194	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	10,165	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	10,136	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	10,114	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	10,094	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	10,078	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	10,062	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	10,045	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	10,029	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	10,007	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	9,978	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	9,927	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	9,900	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	9,873	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	9,850	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	9,821	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	9,794	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	9,782	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	9,778	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	9,757	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	9,716	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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.