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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	51,181	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	52,782	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	54,453	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	56,170	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	57,860	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	59,599	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	61,474	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,479	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	65,590	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	67,800	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	70,114	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	72,550	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	75,138	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	77,792	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,534	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	83,368	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	86,229	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	89,193	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	92,209	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	95,232	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	98,320	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	101,499	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	104,767	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	108,171	5,042

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, Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.