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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	51,181	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	52,782	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	54,453	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	56,170	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	57,860	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	59,599	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	61,474	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,479	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	65,590	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	67,800	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	70,114	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	72,550	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	75,138	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	77,792	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,534	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	83,368	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	86,229	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	89,193	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	92,209	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	95,232	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	98,320	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	101,499	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	104,767	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	108,171	37,914

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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