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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Sudan	Congo - Kinshasa	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	26,168	51,181	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	26,771	52,782	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	27,387	54,453	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	28,017	56,170	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	28,662	57,860	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	29,321	59,599	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	29,996	61,474	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	30,686	63,479	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	31,393	65,590	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	32,137	67,800	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	33,078	70,114	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	33,891	72,550	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	34,568	75,138	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	35,293	77,792	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	36,093	80,534	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	37,058	83,368	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	38,165	86,229	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	39,294	89,193	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	40,512	92,209	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	41,764	95,232	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	42,952	98,320	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	44,121	101,499	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	45,290	104,767	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	46,498	108,171	110,593

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

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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 Sudan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.