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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Philippines	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	79,346	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,131	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	83,023	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	84,876	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	86,697	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	88,568	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	90,418	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	92,253	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	94,098	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	95,923	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	97,627	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	99,317	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	100,999	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	102,618	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	104,299	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	106,076	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	107,868	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	109,493	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	111,094	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	112,843	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	114,636	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	117,026	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	119,473	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	121,234	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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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.