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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 EgyptCongo - KinshasaEstonia
66,00151,1811,378
67,37752,7821,400
68,79054,4531,391
70,26956,1701,382
71,78557,8601,374
73,29859,5991,365
74,83261,4741,357
76,43263,4791,349
78,14065,5901,341
79,94567,8001,337
81,84070,1141,334
83,84472,5501,332
85,96975,1381,328
88,19877,7921,324
90,56680,5341,319
93,00983,3681,314
95,43286,2291,312
97,88289,1931,314
100,30392,2091,314
102,61795,2321,318
104,81698,3201,323
106,893101,4991,327
108,871104,7671,329
110,593108,1711,330

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