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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EgyptOmanTurkmenistan
66,0012,3484,324
67,3772,4034,385
68,7902,4574,444
70,2692,5104,502
71,7852,5624,556
73,2982,6134,608
74,8322,6634,664
76,4322,7134,719
78,1402,7644,773
79,9452,8164,828
81,8402,8714,884
83,8442,9284,940
85,9692,9864,996
88,1983,0475,053
90,5663,1105,110
93,0093,1745,169
95,4323,2405,227
97,8823,3075,287
100,3033,3755,346
102,6173,4445,405
104,8163,5125,464
106,8933,5825,522
108,8713,6515,579
110,5933,6965,657

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

Egypt

  • 1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
  • 700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
  • 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 Oman, Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.