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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	39,252

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.