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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 North MacedoniaEthiopiaCongo - Kinshasa
2,00663,57551,181
2,01765,21352,782
2,02666,88954,453
2,01168,64956,170
2,01870,49157,860
2,02472,38959,599
2,02874,32761,474
2,03176,32663,479
2,03578,41165,590
2,03880,56467,800
2,04282,78770,114
2,04685,09672,550
2,04987,53075,138
2,05290,06677,792
2,05592,63280,534
2,05895,33783,368
2,06198,11486,229
2,063100,85889,193
2,065103,65492,209
2,067106,46695,232
2,068109,26798,320
2,065112,100101,499
2,057114,964104,767
2,048117,924108,171

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

North Macedonia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Ethiopia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.