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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Congo - Kinshasa	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	51,181	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	52,782	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	54,453	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	56,170	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	57,860	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	59,599	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	61,474	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	63,479	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	65,590	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	67,800	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	70,114	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	72,550	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	75,138	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	77,792	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	80,534	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	83,368	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	86,229	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	89,193	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	92,209	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	95,232	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	98,320	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	101,499	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	104,767	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	108,171	19,715

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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