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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Turkmenistan
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	4,324
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	4,385
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	4,444
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	4,502
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	4,556
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	4,608
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	4,664
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	4,719
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	4,773
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	4,828
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	4,884
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	4,940
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	4,996
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	5,053
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	5,110
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	5,169
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	5,227
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	5,287
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	5,346
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	5,405
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	5,464
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	5,522
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	5,579
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	5,657

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 Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.