Population, long-run history: compare countries

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Iran
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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	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	2,059

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 Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.