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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Congo - Kinshasa	Egypt	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	273	51,181	66,001	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	274	52,782	67,377	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	275	54,453	68,790	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	276	56,170	70,269	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	278	57,860	71,785	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	279	59,599	73,298	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	280	61,474	74,832	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,479	76,432	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	282	65,590	78,140	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	283	67,800	79,945	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	285	70,114	81,840	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	286	72,550	83,844	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	287	75,138	85,969	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	288	77,792	88,198	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	289	80,534	90,566	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	290	83,368	93,009	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	291	86,229	95,432	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	291	89,193	97,882	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	292	92,209	100,303	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	293	95,232	102,617	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	294	98,320	104,816	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	294	101,499	106,893	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	295	104,767	108,871	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	295	108,171	110,593	6,291

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.

All data sources

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

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 Barbados, Congo - Kinshasa, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.