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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	United States	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	279,040	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	282,162	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	284,969	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	287,625	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	290,108	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	292,805	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	295,517	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	298,380	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	301,231	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	304,094	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	306,772	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	309,327	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	311,583	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	313,878	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	316,060	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	318,386	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	320,739	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	323,072	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	325,122	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	326,838	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	328,330	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	331,512	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	332,032	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	333,288	108,171

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.

All data sources

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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.