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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IranCongo - KinshasaGermany
64,70451,18181,439
65,41152,78281,474
66,16754,45381,534
66,68956,17081,595
67,80757,86081,566
68,48059,59981,473
69,32561,47481,354
70,15863,47981,190
71,04065,59081,009
71,94267,80080,781
72,88870,11480,500
73,82672,55080,301
74,62575,13880,292
75,44677,79280,443
76,41880,53480,663
77,52183,36881,000
78,65286,22981,704
79,70089,19382,366
80,72592,20982,674
81,72195,23282,923
82,68598,32083,110
83,614101,49983,178
84,505104,76783,213
85,108108,17183,811

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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