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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	10,227	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	10,252	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	10,288	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	10,334	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	10,377	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	10,422	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	10,480	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	10,549	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	10,627	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	10,711	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	10,797	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	10,897	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	11,039	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	11,108	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	11,160	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	11,210	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	11,275	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	11,332	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	11,376	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	11,429	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	11,491	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	11,546	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	11,594	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	11,695	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

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.