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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 - KinshasaEgyptAlbania
51,18166,0013,085
52,78267,3773,065
54,45368,7903,047
56,17070,2693,038
57,86071,7853,026
59,59973,2983,014
61,47474,8322,998
63,47976,4322,979
65,59078,1402,957
67,80079,9452,934
70,11481,8402,915
72,55083,8442,900
75,13885,9692,892
77,79288,1982,888
80,53490,5662,882
83,36893,0092,876
86,22995,4322,868
89,19397,8822,863
92,209100,3032,861
95,232102,6172,854
98,320104,8162,842
101,499106,8932,825
104,767108,8712,799
108,171110,5932,787

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

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