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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Congo - Kinshasa	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	51,181	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	52,782	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	54,453	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	56,170	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	57,860	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	59,599	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	61,474	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	63,479	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	65,590	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	67,800	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	70,114	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	72,550	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	75,138	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	77,792	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	80,534	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	83,368	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	86,229	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	89,193	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	92,209	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	95,232	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	98,320	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	101,499	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	104,767	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	108,171	9,690

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

Zambia

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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