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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	Germany	Russia	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	147,218	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	146,600	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	145,980	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	145,310	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	144,652	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	144,071	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	143,522	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	143,053	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	142,809	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	142,746	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	142,789	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	142,853	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	142,964	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	143,205	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	143,510	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	146,094	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	146,410	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	146,678	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	146,846	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	146,834	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	146,768	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	146,463	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	145,849	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	146,693	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.

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.