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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Congo - Kinshasa	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	51,181	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	52,782	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	54,453	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	56,170	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	57,860	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	59,599	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	61,474	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	63,479	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	65,590	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	67,800	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	70,114	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	72,550	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	75,138	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	77,792	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,534	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	83,368	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	86,229	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	89,193	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	92,209	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	95,232	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	98,320	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	101,499	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	104,767	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	108,171	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 Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.