Population, long-run history: compare countries

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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	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	9,188

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

Israel

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