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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Congo - Kinshasa	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	51,181	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	52,782	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	54,453	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	56,170	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	57,860	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	59,599	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	61,474	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	63,479	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	65,590	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	67,800	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	70,114	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	72,550	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	75,138	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	77,792	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	80,534	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	83,368	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	86,229	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	89,193	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	92,209	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	95,232	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	98,320	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	101,499	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	104,767	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	108,171	46,498

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