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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	Burkina Faso	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	11,075	387
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	11,405	390
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	11,828	393
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	12,380	396
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	12,829	398
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	13,178	401
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	13,540	404
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	13,917	405
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	14,309	406
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	14,722	409
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	15,152	412
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	15,600	414
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	16,064	416
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	16,563	420
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	17,072	426
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	17,575	435
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	18,094	445
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	18,621	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	19,157	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	19,698	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	20,242	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	20,788	516
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	21,336	518
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	21,889	530

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

Iraq

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 Burkina Faso, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.