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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa	Puerto Rico
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	51,181	3,800
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	52,782	3,811
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	54,453	3,819
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	56,170	3,824
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	57,860	3,826
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	59,599	3,827
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	61,474	3,822
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,479	3,805
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	65,590	3,783
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	67,800	3,761
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	70,114	3,741
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	72,550	3,722
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	75,138	3,679
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	77,792	3,636
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,534	3,589
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	83,368	3,534
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	86,229	3,473
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	89,193	3,411
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	92,209	3,352
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	95,232	3,295
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	98,320	3,268
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	101,499	3,247
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	104,767	3,232
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	108,171	3,228

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

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