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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 - KinshasaSudanIraq
51,18126,16822,076
52,78226,77122,748
54,45327,38723,440
56,17028,01724,212
57,86028,66224,979
59,59929,32125,726
61,47429,99626,531
63,47930,68626,706
65,59031,39326,429
67,80032,13726,969
70,11433,07828,024
72,55033,89128,956
75,13834,56829,974
77,79235,29331,321
80,53436,09332,779
83,36837,05833,857
86,22938,16534,674
89,19339,29435,437
92,20940,51236,200
95,23241,76437,015
98,32042,95237,846
101,49944,12138,673
104,76745,29039,491
108,17146,49840,364

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