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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	El Salvador
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	5,767
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	5,825
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	5,856
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	5,869
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	5,880
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	5,888
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	5,899
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	5,906
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	5,911
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	5,934
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	5,954
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	5,967
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	5,984
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	6,033
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	6,121
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	6,179
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	6,205
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	6,248
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	6,304
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	6,368
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	6,372
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	6,385
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	6,407
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	6,429

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 El Salvador; the database as a whole is cited above.