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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaIcelandIreland
51,1812773,757
52,7822813,807
54,4532853,866
56,1702883,934
57,8602894,000
59,5992934,070
61,4742964,163
63,4793044,273
65,5903114,403
67,8003194,499
70,1143194,542
72,5503184,563
75,1383194,581
77,7923214,600
80,5343244,623
83,3683274,655
86,2293314,699
89,1933354,752
92,2093434,805
95,2323534,864
98,3203614,930
101,4993664,983
104,7673725,022
108,1713805,118

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

Iceland

  • 1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.