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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Congo - Kinshasa	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	51,181	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	52,782	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	54,453	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	56,170	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	57,860	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	59,599	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	61,474	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	63,479	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	65,590	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	67,800	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	70,114	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	72,550	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	75,138	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	77,792	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,534	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	83,368	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	86,229	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	89,193	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	92,209	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	95,232	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	98,320	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	101,499	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	104,767	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	108,171	110,593

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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