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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	Slovenia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	19,964	1,998
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	20,426	2,004
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	20,956	2,006
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	21,549	2,009
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	22,189	2,010
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	22,850	2,011
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	23,516	2,015
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	24,178	2,022
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	24,841	2,033
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	25,518	2,036
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	26,227	2,056
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	27,068	2,063
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	27,810	2,067
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	28,516	2,071
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	29,220	2,074
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	29,936	2,076
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	30,646	2,078
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	31,360	2,079
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	32,184	2,081
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	32,869	2,087
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	33,661	2,104
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	34,542	2,118
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	33,651	2,123
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	34,081	2,124

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

Slovenia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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