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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Congo - Kinshasa	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	51,181	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	52,782	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	54,453	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	56,170	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	57,860	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	59,599	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	61,474	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	63,479	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	65,590	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	67,800	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	70,114	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	72,550	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	75,138	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	77,792	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,534	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	83,368	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	86,229	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	89,193	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	92,209	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	95,232	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	98,320	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	101,499	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	104,767	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	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

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 Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.