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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	22,414	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	22,262	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	22,106	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	21,931	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	21,828	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	21,704	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	21,571	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	21,443	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	21,129	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	20,779	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	20,607	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	20,485	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	20,385	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	20,296	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	20,224	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	20,151	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	20,055	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	19,938	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	19,823	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	19,713	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	19,622	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	19,496	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	19,351	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	19,266	85,108

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.