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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Central African Republic	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,889	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,980	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	4,054	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	4,128	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,215	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,289	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,363	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,449	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,544	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,641	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,742	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,845	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,950	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	5,057	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	5,167	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	5,278	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	5,392	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	5,507	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	5,625	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	5,745	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	5,874	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	6,025	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	6,154	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	6,291	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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.