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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ethiopia	Congo - Kinshasa	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	63,575	51,181	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	65,213	52,782	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	66,889	54,453	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	68,649	56,170	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	70,491	57,860	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	72,389	59,599	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	74,327	61,474	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	76,326	63,479	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	78,411	65,590	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	80,564	67,800	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	82,787	70,114	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	85,096	72,550	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	87,530	75,138	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	90,066	77,792	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	92,632	80,534	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	95,337	83,368	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	98,114	86,229	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	100,858	89,193	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	103,654	92,209	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	106,466	95,232	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	109,267	98,320	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	112,100	101,499	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	114,964	104,767	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	117,924	108,171	34,081

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

Saudi Arabia

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