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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 - KinshasaPuerto Rico
66,00151,1813,800
67,37752,7823,811
68,79054,4533,819
70,26956,1703,824
71,78557,8603,826
73,29859,5993,827
74,83261,4743,822
76,43263,4793,805
78,14065,5903,783
79,94567,8003,761
81,84070,1143,741
83,84472,5503,722
85,96975,1383,679
88,19877,7923,636
90,56680,5343,589
93,00983,3683,534
95,43286,2293,473
97,88289,1933,411
100,30392,2093,352
102,61795,2323,295
104,81698,3203,268
106,893101,4993,247
108,871104,7673,232
110,593108,1713,228

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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.