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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Benin	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	6,461	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	6,677	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	6,902	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	7,130	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	7,360	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	7,589	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	7,838	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	8,089	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	8,335	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	8,603	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	8,884	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	9,179	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	9,486	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	9,805	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,135	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,480	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,842	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,220	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,613	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	12,018	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	12,370	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	12,725	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	13,081	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	13,439	34,081

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, Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.