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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	108,171	8,834

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

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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