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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lesotho	Congo - Kinshasa	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	51,181	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	52,782	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	54,453	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	56,170	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	57,860	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	59,599	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	61,474	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,479	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	65,590	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	67,800	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	70,114	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	72,550	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	75,138	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	77,792	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	80,534	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	83,368	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	86,229	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	89,193	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	92,209	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	95,232	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	98,320	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	101,499	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	104,767	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	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

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 Lesotho, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.