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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	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	19,964	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	20,426	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	20,956	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	21,549	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	22,189	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	22,850	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	23,516	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	24,178	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	24,841	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	25,518	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	26,227	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	27,068	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	27,810	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	28,516	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	29,220	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	29,936	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	30,646	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	31,360	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	32,184	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	32,869	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	33,661	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	34,542	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	33,651	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	34,081	31,845

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