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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Germany	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	81,439	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	81,474	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	81,534	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	81,595	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	81,566	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	81,473	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	81,354	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	81,190	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	81,009	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	80,781	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	80,500	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	80,301	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	80,292	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	80,443	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	80,663	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	81,000	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	81,704	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	82,366	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	82,674	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	82,923	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	83,110	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	83,178	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	83,213	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	83,811	108,171

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.