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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 - KinshasaSaudi ArabiaNorway
51,18119,9644,463
52,78220,4264,492
54,45320,9564,515
56,17021,5494,539
57,86022,1894,566
59,59922,8504,593
61,47423,5164,624
63,47924,1784,662
65,59024,8414,710
67,80025,5184,769
70,11426,2274,830
72,55027,0684,890
75,13827,8104,954
77,79228,5165,020
80,53429,2205,081
83,36829,9365,138
86,22930,6465,191
89,19331,3605,237
92,20932,1845,278
95,23232,8695,313
98,32033,6615,349
101,49934,5425,380
104,76733,6515,409
108,17134,0815,458

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

Norway

  • 1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
  • 1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.