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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Ireland
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	3,757
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	3,807
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	3,866
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	3,934
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	4,000
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	4,070
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	4,163
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	4,273
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	4,403
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	4,499
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	4,542
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	4,563
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	4,581
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	4,600
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	4,623
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	4,655
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	4,699
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	4,752
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	4,805
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	4,864
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	4,930
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	4,983
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	5,022
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	5,118

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

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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