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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Paraguay	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,366	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,473	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,579	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,683	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,786	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,886	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,984	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	6,080	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,173	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	6,264	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	6,352	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	6,438	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	6,522	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	6,605	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	6,688	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	6,769	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	6,850	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	6,930	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	7,012	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	7,095	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	7,179	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	7,263	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	7,348	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	7,432	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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.