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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	51,181	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	52,782	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	54,453	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	56,170	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	57,860	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	59,599	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	61,474	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	63,479	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	65,590	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	67,800	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	70,114	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	72,550	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	75,138	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	77,792	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	80,534	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	83,368	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	86,229	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	89,193	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	92,209	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	95,232	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	98,320	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	101,499	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	104,767	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	108,171	7,666

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

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, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.