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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Iraq	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,076	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,748	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	285	23,440	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,212	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,979	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,726	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,531	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,706	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	311	26,429	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	319	26,969	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,024	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	318	28,956	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,974	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	321	31,321	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	324	32,779	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	327	33,857	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	331	34,674	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	335	35,437	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,200	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,015	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,846	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,673	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	372	39,491	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	380	40,364	7,432

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.

Iraq

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.