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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	51,181	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	52,782	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	54,453	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	56,170	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	57,860	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	59,599	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	61,474	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	63,479	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	65,590	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	67,800	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	70,114	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	72,550	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	75,138	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	77,792	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	80,534	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	83,368	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	86,229	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	89,193	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	92,209	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	95,232	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	98,320	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	101,499	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	104,767	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	108,171	21,889

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