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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Congo - Kinshasa	Italy
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	51,181	56,940
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	52,782	56,966
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	54,453	57,004
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	56,170	57,114
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	57,860	57,423
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	59,599	57,852
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	61,474	58,191
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	63,479	58,424
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	65,590	58,781
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	67,800	59,236
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	70,114	59,580
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	72,550	59,844
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	75,138	60,052
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	77,792	60,216
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	80,534	60,337
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	83,368	60,346
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	86,229	60,255
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	89,193	60,140
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	92,209	60,027
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	95,232	59,902
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	98,320	59,754
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	101,499	59,464
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	104,767	59,158
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	108,171	58,966

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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