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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Netherlands	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	15,817	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	15,932	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	16,052	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	16,155	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	16,231	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	16,288	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	16,326	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	16,352	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	16,388	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	16,452	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	16,536	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	16,621	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	16,699	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	16,761	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	16,810	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	16,871	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	16,946	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	17,036	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	17,137	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	17,238	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	17,351	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	17,448	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	17,539	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	17,709	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.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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