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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 EgyptAlbaniaCongo - Kinshasa
66,0013,08551,181
67,3773,06552,782
68,7903,04754,453
70,2693,03856,170
71,7853,02657,860
73,2983,01459,599
74,8322,99861,474
76,4322,97963,479
78,1402,95765,590
79,9452,93467,800
81,8402,91570,114
83,8442,90072,550
85,9692,89275,138
88,1982,88877,792
90,5662,88280,534
93,0092,87683,368
95,4322,86886,229
97,8822,86389,193
100,3032,86192,209
102,6172,85495,232
104,8162,84298,320
106,8932,825101,499
108,8712,799104,767
110,5932,787108,171

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

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