Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date YemenSudanCongo - Kinshasa
16,72826,16851,181
17,23626,77152,782
17,76227,38754,453
18,31028,01756,170
18,85528,66257,860
19,41029,32159,599
20,00029,99661,474
20,61130,68663,479
21,23631,39365,590
21,87832,13767,800
22,53333,07870,114
23,19533,89172,550
23,88034,56875,138
24,59435,29377,792
25,31136,09380,534
26,02037,05883,368
26,69838,16586,229
27,34739,29489,193
27,98540,51292,209
28,60841,76495,232
29,21642,95298,320
29,81144,121101,499
30,39945,290104,767
31,05846,498108,171

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.

All data sources

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

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