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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 - KinshasaHondurasSaudi Arabia
51,1816,19819,964
52,7826,36720,426
54,4536,53520,956
56,1706,69821,549
57,8606,86322,189
59,5997,02822,850
61,4747,19423,516
63,4797,35924,178
65,5907,52224,841
67,8007,68225,518
70,1147,83926,227
72,5507,99127,068
75,1388,14127,810
77,7928,28828,516
80,5348,42929,220
83,3688,54629,936
86,2298,66130,646
89,1938,77031,360
92,2098,87832,184
95,2329,00232,869
98,3209,15433,661
101,4999,30434,542
104,7679,44833,651
108,1719,59034,081

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