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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	51,181	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	52,782	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	54,453	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	56,170	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	57,860	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	59,599	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	61,474	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,479	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	65,590	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	67,800	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	70,114	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	72,550	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	75,138	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	77,792	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,534	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	83,368	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	86,229	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	89,193	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	92,209	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	95,232	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	98,320	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	101,499	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	104,767	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	108,171	9,107

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.