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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaBurkina FasoSaudi Arabia
51,18111,07519,964
52,78211,40520,426
54,45311,82820,956
56,17012,38021,549
57,86012,82922,189
59,59913,17822,850
61,47413,54023,516
63,47913,91724,178
65,59014,30924,841
67,80014,72225,518
70,11415,15226,227
72,55015,60027,068
75,13816,06427,810
77,79216,56328,516
80,53417,07229,220
83,36817,57529,936
86,22918,09430,646
89,19318,62131,360
92,20919,15732,184
95,23219,69832,869
98,32020,24233,661
101,49920,78834,542
104,76721,33633,651
108,17121,88934,081

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

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

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