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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	64,704	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	65,411	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	66,167	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	66,689	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	67,807	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	68,480	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	69,325	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	70,158	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	71,040	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	71,942	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	72,888	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	73,826	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	74,625	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	75,446	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	76,418	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	77,521	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	78,652	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	79,700	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	80,725	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	81,721	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	82,685	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	83,614	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	84,505	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	85,108	108,171

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.