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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	51,181	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	52,782	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	54,453	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	56,170	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	57,860	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	59,599	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	61,474	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	63,479	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	65,590	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	67,800	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	70,114	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	72,550	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	75,138	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	77,792	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	80,534	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	83,368	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	86,229	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	89,193	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	92,209	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	95,232	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	98,320	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	101,499	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	104,767	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	108,171	7,666

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