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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IranOmanJordan
64,7042,3484,591
65,4112,4034,700
66,1672,4574,811
66,6892,5104,923
67,8072,5625,037
68,4802,6135,161
69,3252,6635,295
70,1582,7135,765
71,0402,7646,243
71,9422,8166,397
72,8882,8716,538
73,8262,9286,680
74,6252,9866,840
75,4463,0476,952
76,4183,1107,706
77,5213,1748,839
78,6523,2409,506
79,7003,3079,863
80,7253,37510,066
81,7213,44410,273
82,6853,51210,480
83,6143,58210,628
84,5053,65110,716
85,1083,69610,849

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

Jordan

  • 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
  • 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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.