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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Oman	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	2,348	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	2,403	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	2,457	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	2,510	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	2,562	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	2,613	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	2,663	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	2,713	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	2,764	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	2,816	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	2,871	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	2,928	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	2,986	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	3,047	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	3,110	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	3,174	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	3,240	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	3,307	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	3,375	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	3,444	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	3,512	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	3,582	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	3,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	3,696	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

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