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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Yemen	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	16,728	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	17,236	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	17,762	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	18,310	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	18,855	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	19,410	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	20,000	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	20,611	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,236	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	21,878	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	22,533	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	23,195	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	23,880	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	24,594	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	25,311	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	26,020	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	26,698	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	27,347	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	27,985	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	28,608	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	29,216	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	29,811	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	30,399	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	31,058	34,081

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