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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ethiopia	Oman	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	63,575	2,348	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	65,213	2,403	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	66,889	2,457	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	68,649	2,510	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	70,491	2,562	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	72,389	2,613	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	74,327	2,663	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	76,326	2,713	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	78,411	2,764	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	80,564	2,816	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	82,787	2,871	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	85,096	2,928	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	87,530	2,986	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	90,066	3,047	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	92,632	3,110	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	95,337	3,174	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	98,114	3,240	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	100,858	3,307	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	103,654	3,375	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	106,466	3,444	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	109,267	3,512	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	112,100	3,582	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	114,964	3,651	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	117,924	3,696	110,593

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 Ethiopia, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.