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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Austria	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,039	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,059	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,090	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,130	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,166	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,217	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	296	8,274	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,317	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,344	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,370	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,390	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	318	8,410	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	319	8,438	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,476	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,527	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,594	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,680	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,791	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,847	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,890	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,930	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,969	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,004	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,107	85,108

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

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