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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Iran	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	64,704	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	65,411	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	66,167	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	66,689	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	67,807	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	68,480	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	69,325	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	70,158	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	71,040	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	71,942	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	72,888	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	73,826	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	74,625	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	75,446	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	76,418	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	77,521	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	78,652	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	79,700	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	80,725	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	81,721	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	82,685	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,614	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	84,505	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	85,108	7,666

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