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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Qatar	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	627	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	659	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	691	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	724	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	757	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	850	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	1,001	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	1,153	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	1,306	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	1,460	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	1,615	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	1,770	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	1,904	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	2,010	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	2,103	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	2,187	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	2,261	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	2,326	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	2,384	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	2,435	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	2,480	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	2,519	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	2,553	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	2,559	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 Qatar, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.