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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Iran	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	64,704	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	65,411	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	66,167	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	66,689	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	67,807	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	68,480	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	69,325	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	70,158	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	71,040	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	71,942	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	72,888	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	73,826	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	74,625	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	75,446	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	76,418	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	77,521	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	78,652	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	79,700	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	80,725	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	81,721	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	82,685	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,614	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	84,505	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	85,108	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

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