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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iraq	United States
Dec 31, 1999	22,076	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	22,748	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	23,440	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	24,212	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	24,979	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	25,726	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	26,531	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	26,706	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	26,429	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	26,969	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	28,024	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	28,956	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	29,974	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	31,321	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	32,779	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	33,857	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	34,674	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	35,437	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	36,200	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	37,015	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	37,846	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	38,673	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	39,491	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	40,364	333,288

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).