Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BurundiCongo - KinshasaSudan
6,12851,18126,168
6,28252,78226,771
6,46654,45327,387
6,67056,17028,017
6,89757,86028,662
7,16759,59929,321
7,43961,47429,996
7,70963,47930,686
7,99165,59031,393
8,31867,80032,137
8,74170,11433,078
9,14072,55033,891
9,44075,13834,568
9,74877,79235,293
10,06980,53436,093
10,38083,36837,058
10,57786,22938,165
10,72189,19339,294
10,95592,20940,512
11,22995,23241,764
11,60298,32042,952
11,987101,49944,121
12,384104,76745,290
12,795108,17146,498

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

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