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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	Moldova	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	4,244	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	4,199	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	4,154	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	4,108	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	4,059	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	4,013	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	3,966	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	3,919	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	3,873	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	3,829	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	3,788	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	3,748	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	3,709	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	3,671	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	3,633	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	3,595	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	3,558	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	3,522	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	3,485	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	3,448	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	3,412	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	3,376	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	3,339	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	3,570	31,058

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 Moldova, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.