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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EstoniaSaudi ArabiaCongo - Kinshasa
1,37819,96451,181
1,40020,42652,782
1,39120,95654,453
1,38221,54956,170
1,37422,18957,860
1,36522,85059,599
1,35723,51661,474
1,34924,17863,479
1,34124,84165,590
1,33725,51867,800
1,33426,22770,114
1,33227,06872,550
1,32827,81075,138
1,32428,51677,792
1,31929,22080,534
1,31429,93683,368
1,31230,64686,229
1,31431,36089,193
1,31432,18492,209
1,31832,86995,232
1,32333,66198,320
1,32734,542101,499
1,32933,651104,767
1,33034,081108,171

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

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