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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Netherlands	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	15,817	51,181	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	15,932	52,782	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	16,052	54,453	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	16,155	56,170	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	16,231	57,860	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	16,288	59,599	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	16,326	61,474	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	16,352	63,479	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	16,388	65,590	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	16,452	67,800	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	16,536	70,114	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	16,621	72,550	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	16,699	75,138	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	16,761	77,792	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	16,810	80,534	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	16,871	83,368	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	16,946	86,229	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	17,036	89,193	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	17,137	92,209	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	17,238	95,232	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	17,351	98,320	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	17,448	101,499	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	17,539	104,767	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	17,709	108,171	37,914

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

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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