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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 - KinshasaIsraelSaudi Arabia
51,1815,92719,964
52,7826,08820,426
54,4536,23620,956
56,1706,36621,549
57,8606,48422,189
59,5996,60322,850
61,4746,72323,516
63,4796,84624,178
65,5906,97224,841
67,8007,10025,518
70,1147,22626,227
72,5507,36027,068
75,1387,49827,810
77,7927,63728,516
80,5347,78129,220
83,3687,93129,936
86,2298,09130,646
89,1938,25131,360
92,2098,41232,184
95,2328,57632,869
98,3208,74233,661
101,4998,89934,542
104,7679,04733,651
108,1719,18834,081

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

Israel

  • 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

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.