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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Iraq	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	22,076	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	22,748	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	23,440	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	24,212	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	24,979	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	25,726	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	26,531	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	26,706	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	26,429	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	26,969	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	28,024	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	28,956	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	29,974	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	31,321	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	32,779	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	33,857	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	34,674	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	35,437	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	36,200	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	37,015	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	37,846	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	38,673	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	39,491	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	40,364	3,570

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

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.