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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Oman	Burkina Faso	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	2,348	11,075	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	2,403	11,405	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	2,457	11,828	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	2,510	12,380	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	2,562	12,829	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	2,613	13,178	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	2,663	13,540	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	2,713	13,917	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	2,764	14,309	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	2,816	14,722	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	2,871	15,152	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	2,928	15,600	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	2,986	16,064	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	3,047	16,563	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	3,110	17,072	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	3,174	17,575	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	3,240	18,094	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	3,307	18,621	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	3,375	19,157	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	3,444	19,698	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	3,512	20,242	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	3,582	20,788	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	3,651	21,336	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	3,696	21,889	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.

All data sources

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 Oman, Burkina Faso, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.