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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	64,704	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	65,411	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	66,167	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	66,689	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	67,807	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	68,480	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	69,325	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	70,158	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	71,040	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	71,942	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	72,888	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	73,826	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	74,625	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	75,446	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	76,418	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	77,521	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	78,652	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	79,700	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	80,725	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	81,721	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	82,685	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	83,614	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	84,505	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	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

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 Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.