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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 TunisiaEgyptCongo - Kinshasa
9,41766,00151,181
9,51467,37752,782
9,61368,79054,453
9,71170,26956,170
9,81071,78557,860
9,90673,29859,599
9,99774,83261,474
10,08776,43263,479
10,17878,14065,590
10,27479,94567,800
10,37781,84070,114
10,49183,84472,550
10,61285,96975,138
10,73788,19877,792
10,86690,56680,534
10,99693,00983,368
11,12495,43286,229
11,24897,88289,193
11,365100,30392,209
11,477102,61795,232
11,583104,81698,320
11,681106,893101,499
11,772108,871104,767
11,862110,593108,171

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

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