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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.