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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Oman	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,075	2,348	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,405	2,403	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,828	2,457	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,380	2,510	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,829	2,562	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,178	2,613	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,540	2,663	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,917	2,713	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,309	2,764	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,722	2,816	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	15,152	2,871	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	15,600	2,928	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,064	2,986	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,563	3,047	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,072	3,110	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,575	3,174	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,094	3,240	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,621	3,307	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,157	3,375	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,698	3,444	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	20,242	3,512	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	20,788	3,582	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	21,336	3,651	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	21,889	3,696	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.

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.