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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Egypt	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	66,001	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	67,377	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	68,790	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	70,269	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	71,785	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	73,298	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	74,832	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	76,432	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	78,140	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	79,945	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	81,840	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	83,844	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	85,969	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	88,198	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	90,566	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	93,009	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	95,432	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	97,882	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	100,303	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	102,617	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	104,816	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	106,893	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	108,871	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	110,593	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.

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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).

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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