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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	39,252

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

Iran

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.