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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Saudi Arabia	Honduras
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	19,964	6,198
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	20,426	6,367
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	20,956	6,535
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	21,549	6,698
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	22,189	6,863
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	22,850	7,028
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	23,516	7,194
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	24,178	7,359
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	24,841	7,522
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	25,518	7,682
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	26,227	7,839
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	27,068	7,991
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	27,810	8,141
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	28,516	8,288
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	29,220	8,429
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	29,936	8,546
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	30,646	8,661
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	31,360	8,770
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	32,184	8,878
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	32,869	9,002
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	33,661	9,154
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	34,542	9,304
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	33,651	9,448
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	34,081	9,590

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

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