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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Congo - Kinshasa	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	51,181	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	52,782	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	54,453	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	56,170	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	57,860	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	59,599	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	61,474	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	63,479	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	65,590	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	67,800	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	70,114	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	72,550	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	75,138	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	77,792	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	80,534	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	83,368	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	86,229	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	89,193	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	92,209	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	95,232	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	98,320	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	101,499	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	104,767	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	108,171	110,593

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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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; the database as a whole is cited above.