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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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