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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Congo - Kinshasa	United States
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	51,181	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	52,782	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	54,453	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	56,170	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	57,860	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	59,599	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	61,474	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	63,479	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	65,590	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	67,800	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	70,114	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	72,550	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	75,138	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	77,792	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	80,534	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	83,368	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	86,229	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	89,193	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	92,209	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	95,232	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	98,320	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	101,499	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	104,767	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	108,171	333,288

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,

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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