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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	United States	Congo - Brazzaville
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	279,040	2,886
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	282,162	2,999
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	284,969	3,113
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	287,625	3,181
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	290,108	3,274
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	292,805	3,400
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	295,517	3,543
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	298,380	3,702
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	301,231	3,859
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	304,094	3,989
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	306,772	4,146
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	309,327	4,324
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	311,583	4,468
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	313,878	4,581
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	316,060	4,667
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	318,386	4,757
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	320,739	4,851
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	323,072	4,951
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	325,122	5,055
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	326,838	5,164
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	328,330	5,279
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	331,512	5,400
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	332,032	5,527
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	333,288	5,655

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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