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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Paraguay	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	70	5,366	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	71	5,473	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	71	5,579	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	72	5,683	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	72	5,786	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	72	5,886	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	72	5,984	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	72	6,080	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,173	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,264	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,352	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	73	6,438	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	73	6,522	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	73	6,605	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	73	6,688	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	73	6,769	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	74	6,850	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	74	6,930	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	74	7,012	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	74	7,095	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	75	7,179	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	75	7,263	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,348	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,432	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 Dominica, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.