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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Indonesia	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	208,105	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	211,408	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	214,475	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	217,516	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	220,549	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	224,473	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	227,534	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	230,739	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	233,918	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	237,056	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	240,140	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	243,171	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	246,150	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	249,086	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	251,947	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	254,702	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	257,351	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	259,906	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	262,379	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	264,789	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	267,142	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	269,437	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	271,674	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	273,409	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.

All data sources

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.