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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Congo - Kinshasa	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	277	51,181	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	281	52,782	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	285	54,453	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	288	56,170	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	289	57,860	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	293	59,599	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	296	61,474	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,479	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	311	65,590	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	319	67,800	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	319	70,114	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	318	72,550	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	319	75,138	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,792	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,534	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	327	83,368	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	331	86,229	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	335	89,193	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	343	92,209	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	353	95,232	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	361	98,320	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	366	101,499	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	372	104,767	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	380	108,171	9,690

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.