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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Spain	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	40,378	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	40,563	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	40,775	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	41,433	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	42,205	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	42,869	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	43,672	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	44,370	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	45,246	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	45,993	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	46,378	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	46,573	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	46,746	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	46,777	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	46,603	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	46,465	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	46,420	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	46,460	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	46,543	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	46,739	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	47,116	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	47,366	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	47,342	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	47,625	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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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.