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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 - KinshasaEgyptDenmark
51,18166,0015,322
52,78267,3775,339
54,45368,7905,358
56,17070,2695,377
57,86071,7855,391
59,59973,2985,404
61,47474,8325,420
63,47976,4325,438
65,59078,1405,461
67,80079,9455,494
70,11481,8405,524
72,55083,8445,548
75,13885,9695,571
77,79288,1985,592
80,53490,5665,614
83,36893,0095,644
86,22995,4325,683
89,19397,8825,730
92,209100,3035,766
95,232102,6175,795
98,320104,8165,818
101,499106,8935,831
104,767108,8715,855
108,171110,5935,907

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