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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Laos	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	5,286	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	5,397	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	5,499	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	5,578	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	5,654	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	5,746	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	5,836	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	5,931	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	6,035	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	6,145	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	6,257	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	6,368	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	6,477	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	6,586	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	6,695	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	6,804	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	6,912	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	7,019	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	7,127	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	7,234	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	7,343	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	7,452	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	7,560	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	7,666	108,171

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