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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 IraqOmanLaos
22,0762,3485,286
22,7482,4035,397
23,4402,4575,499
24,2122,5105,578
24,9792,5625,654
25,7262,6135,746
26,5312,6635,836
26,7062,7135,931
26,4292,7646,035
26,9692,8166,145
28,0242,8716,257
28,9562,9286,368
29,9742,9866,477
31,3213,0476,586
32,7793,1106,695
33,8573,1746,804
34,6743,2406,912
35,4373,3077,019
36,2003,3757,127
37,0153,4447,234
37,8463,5127,343
38,6733,5827,452
39,4913,6517,560
40,3643,6967,666

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