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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	11,075	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	11,405	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	11,828	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	12,380	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	12,829	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	13,178	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	13,540	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	13,917	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	14,309	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	14,722	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	15,152	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	15,600	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	16,064	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	16,563	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	17,072	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	17,575	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	18,094	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	18,621	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,157	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,698	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	20,242	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	20,788	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	21,336	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	21,889	85,108

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

Iran

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.