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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	40,364

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Iraq

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