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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 Saudi ArabiaCongo - Kinshasa
19,96451,181
20,42652,782
20,95654,453
21,54956,170
22,18957,860
22,85059,599
23,51661,474
24,17863,479
24,84165,590
25,51867,800
26,22770,114
27,06872,550
27,81075,138
28,51677,792
29,22080,534
29,93683,368
30,64686,229
31,36089,193
32,18492,209
32,86995,232
33,66198,320
34,542101,499
33,651104,767
34,081108,171

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

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.