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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	12,268	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	12,446	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	12,629	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	12,827	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	13,074	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	13,368	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	13,661	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	13,915	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	14,133	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	14,352	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	14,569	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	14,786	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	15,002	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	15,218	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	15,433	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	15,647	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	15,860	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	16,072	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	16,282	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	16,489	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	16,693	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	16,894	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	17,093	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	17,288	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

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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