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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 - KinshasaMaliEgypt
51,18110,59666,001
52,78210,83367,377
54,45310,89068,790
56,17011,00770,269
57,86011,30771,785
59,59911,57973,298
61,47411,80474,832
63,47912,04376,432
65,59012,33778,140
67,80012,65779,945
70,11412,98681,840
72,55013,32583,844
75,13813,67985,969
77,79214,04088,198
80,53414,41290,566
83,36814,80393,009
86,22915,21095,432
89,19315,62997,882
92,20916,060100,303
95,23216,507102,617
98,32016,967104,816
101,49917,442106,893
104,76717,930108,871
108,17118,494110,593

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