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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	Saudi Arabia	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	12,268	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	12,446	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	12,629	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	12,827	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	13,074	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	13,368	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	13,661	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	13,915	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	14,133	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	14,352	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	14,569	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	14,786	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	15,002	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	15,218	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	15,433	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	15,647	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	15,860	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	16,072	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	16,282	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	16,489	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	16,693	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	16,894	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	17,093	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	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.

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

Saudi Arabia

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

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