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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	Albania	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	3,085	433
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	3,065	438
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	3,047	443
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	3,038	448
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	3,026	454
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	3,014	460
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	2,998	467
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	2,979	474
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	2,957	482
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	2,934	491
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	2,915	500
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	2,900	509
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	2,892	521
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	2,888	533
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	2,882	547
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	2,876	560
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	2,868	571
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	2,863	586
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	2,861	599
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	2,854	610
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	2,842	623
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	2,825	633
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	2,799	643
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	2,787	651

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 Albania, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.