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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Egypt	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	66,001	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	67,377	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	68,790	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	70,269	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	71,785	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	73,298	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	74,832	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	76,432	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	78,140	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	79,945	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	81,840	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	83,844	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	85,969	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	88,198	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	90,566	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	93,009	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	95,432	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	97,882	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	100,303	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	102,617	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	104,816	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	106,893	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	108,871	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	110,593	3,570

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