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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 IranSudan
64,70426,168
65,41126,771
66,16727,387
66,68928,017
67,80728,662
68,48029,321
69,32529,996
70,15830,686
71,04031,393
71,94232,137
72,88833,078
73,82633,891
74,62534,568
75,44635,293
76,41836,093
77,52137,058
78,65238,165
79,70039,294
80,72540,512
81,72141,764
82,68542,952
83,61444,121
84,50545,290
85,10846,498

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.