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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Singapore	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	3,959	51,181	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	4,028	52,782	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	4,138	54,453	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	4,176	56,170	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	4,115	57,860	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	4,167	59,599	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	4,266	61,474	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	4,401	63,479	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	4,589	65,590	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	4,839	67,800	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	4,988	70,114	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	5,077	72,550	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	5,184	75,138	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	5,312	77,792	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	5,399	80,534	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	5,470	83,368	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	5,535	86,229	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	5,607	89,193	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	5,612	92,209	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	5,639	95,232	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	5,704	98,320	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	5,686	101,499	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	5,716	104,767	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	5,750	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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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.