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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Iraq	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,076	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,748	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	23,440	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,212	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,979	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,726	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,531	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,706	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	26,429	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	26,969	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,024	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	28,956	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,974	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	31,321	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	32,779	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	33,857	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	34,674	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	35,437	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,200	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,015	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,846	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,673	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	39,491	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	40,364	2,559

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.