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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Iraq	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	22,076	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	22,748	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	23,440	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	24,212	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	24,979	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	25,726	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	26,531	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	26,706	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	26,429	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	26,969	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	28,024	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	28,956	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	29,974	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	31,321	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	32,779	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	33,857	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	34,674	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	35,437	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	36,200	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	37,015	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	37,846	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	38,673	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	39,491	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	40,364	46,498

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