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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iran	Tanzania
Dec 31, 1999	64,704	32,912
Dec 31, 2000	65,411	33,953
Dec 31, 2001	66,167	34,974
Dec 31, 2002	66,689	36,021
Dec 31, 2003	67,807	37,100
Dec 31, 2004	68,480	38,167
Dec 31, 2005	69,325	39,262
Dec 31, 2006	70,158	40,387
Dec 31, 2007	71,040	41,557
Dec 31, 2008	71,942	42,741
Dec 31, 2009	72,888	43,889
Dec 31, 2010	73,826	45,132
Dec 31, 2011	74,625	46,531
Dec 31, 2012	75,446	47,965
Dec 31, 2013	76,418	49,437
Dec 31, 2014	77,521	50,965
Dec 31, 2015	78,652	52,604
Dec 31, 2016	79,700	54,336
Dec 31, 2017	80,725	56,062
Dec 31, 2018	81,721	57,765
Dec 31, 2019	82,685	59,465
Dec 31, 2020	83,614	61,191
Dec 31, 2021	84,505	62,944
Dec 31, 2022	85,108	64,835

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 Tanzania; the database as a whole is cited above.