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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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.