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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Uganda	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	23,408	51,181	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	24,195	52,782	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	24,992	54,453	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	25,846	56,170	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	26,661	57,860	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	27,414	59,599	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	28,200	61,474	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	29,021	63,479	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	29,846	65,590	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	30,647	67,800	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	31,469	70,114	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	32,343	72,550	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	33,257	75,138	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	34,234	77,792	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	35,271	80,534	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	36,419	83,368	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	37,673	86,229	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	39,157	89,193	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	40,879	92,209	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	42,329	95,232	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	43,639	98,320	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	45,120	101,499	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	46,645	104,767	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	48,065	108,171	124,762

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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