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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lesotho	Congo - Kinshasa	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	51,181	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	52,782	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	54,453	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	56,170	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	57,860	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	59,599	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	61,474	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,479	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	65,590	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	67,800	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	70,114	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	72,550	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	75,138	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	77,792	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	80,534	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	83,368	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	86,229	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	89,193	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	92,209	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	95,232	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	98,320	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	101,499	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	104,767	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	108,171	85,108

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 Lesotho, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.