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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 - KinshasaRussia
19,96451,181147,218
20,42652,782146,600
20,95654,453145,980
21,54956,170145,310
22,18957,860144,652
22,85059,599144,071
23,51661,474143,522
24,17863,479143,053
24,84165,590142,809
25,51867,800142,746
26,22770,114142,789
27,06872,550142,853
27,81075,138142,964
28,51677,792143,205
29,22080,534143,510
29,93683,368146,094
30,64686,229146,410
31,36089,193146,678
32,18492,209146,846
32,86995,232146,834
33,66198,320146,768
34,542101,499146,463
33,651104,767145,849
34,081108,171146,693

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

Russia

  • 1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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