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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 EgyptEstoniaCongo - Kinshasa
66,0011,37851,181
67,3771,40052,782
68,7901,39154,453
70,2691,38256,170
71,7851,37457,860
73,2981,36559,599
74,8321,35761,474
76,4321,34963,479
78,1401,34165,590
79,9451,33767,800
81,8401,33470,114
83,8441,33272,550
85,9691,32875,138
88,1981,32477,792
90,5661,31980,534
93,0091,31483,368
95,4321,31286,229
97,8821,31489,193
100,3031,31492,209
102,6171,31895,232
104,8161,32398,320
106,8931,327101,499
108,8711,329104,767
110,5931,330108,171

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