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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Saudi Arabia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	19,964	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	20,426	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	20,956	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,549	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	22,189	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	22,850	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	23,516	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	24,178	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	24,841	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	25,518	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	26,227	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	27,068	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	27,810	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	28,516	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	29,220	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	29,936	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	30,646	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	31,360	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	32,184	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	32,869	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	33,661	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	34,542	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	33,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	34,081	108,171

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.