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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 MacedoniaSaudi ArabiaCongo - Kinshasa
2,00619,96451,181
2,01720,42652,782
2,02620,95654,453
2,01121,54956,170
2,01822,18957,860
2,02422,85059,599
2,02823,51661,474
2,03124,17863,479
2,03524,84165,590
2,03825,51867,800
2,04226,22770,114
2,04627,06872,550
2,04927,81075,138
2,05228,51677,792
2,05529,22080,534
2,05829,93683,368
2,06130,64686,229
2,06331,36089,193
2,06532,18492,209
2,06732,86995,232
2,06833,66198,320
2,06534,542101,499
2,05733,651104,767
2,04834,081108,171

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

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