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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Estonia	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	1,378	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	1,400	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	1,391	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	1,382	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	1,374	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	1,365	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	1,357	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	1,349	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	1,341	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	1,337	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	1,334	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	1,332	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	1,328	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	1,324	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	1,319	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	1,314	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	1,312	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	1,314	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	1,314	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	1,318	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	1,323	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	1,327	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	1,329	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	1,330	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, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.