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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Congo - Kinshasa	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	51,181	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	52,782	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	54,453	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	56,170	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	57,860	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	59,599	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	61,474	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	63,479	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	65,590	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	67,800	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	70,114	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	72,550	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	75,138	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	77,792	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,534	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	83,368	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	86,229	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	89,193	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	92,209	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	95,232	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	98,320	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	101,499	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	104,767	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	108,171	31,058

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, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.