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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 - KinshasaPuerto RicoEgypt
51,1813,80066,001
52,7823,81167,377
54,4533,81968,790
56,1703,82470,269
57,8603,82671,785
59,5993,82773,298
61,4743,82274,832
63,4793,80576,432
65,5903,78378,140
67,8003,76179,945
70,1143,74181,840
72,5503,72283,844
75,1383,67985,969
77,7923,63688,198
80,5343,58990,566
83,3683,53493,009
86,2293,47395,432
89,1933,41197,882
92,2093,352100,303
95,2323,295102,617
98,3203,268104,816
101,4993,247106,893
104,7673,232108,871
108,1713,228110,593

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.