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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 EgyptMoldovaCongo - Kinshasa
66,0014,24451,181
67,3774,19952,782
68,7904,15454,453
70,2694,10856,170
71,7854,05957,860
73,2984,01359,599
74,8323,96661,474
76,4323,91963,479
78,1403,87365,590
79,9453,82967,800
81,8403,78870,114
83,8443,74872,550
85,9693,70975,138
88,1983,67177,792
90,5663,63380,534
93,0093,59583,368
95,4323,55886,229
97,8823,52289,193
100,3033,48592,209
102,6173,44895,232
104,8163,41298,320
106,8933,376101,499
108,8713,339104,767
110,5933,570108,171

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