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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 - KinshasaParaguayEgypt
51,1815,36666,001
52,7825,47367,377
54,4535,57968,790
56,1705,68370,269
57,8605,78671,785
59,5995,88673,298
61,4745,98474,832
63,4796,08076,432
65,5906,17378,140
67,8006,26479,945
70,1146,35281,840
72,5506,43883,844
75,1386,52285,969
77,7926,60588,198
80,5346,68890,566
83,3686,76993,009
86,2296,85095,432
89,1936,93097,882
92,2097,012100,303
95,2327,095102,617
98,3207,179104,816
101,4997,263106,893
104,7677,348108,871
108,1717,432110,593

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