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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Oman	Egypt	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	277	2,348	66,001	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	281	2,403	67,377	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	285	2,457	68,790	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	288	2,510	70,269	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	289	2,562	71,785	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	293	2,613	73,298	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	296	2,663	74,832	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	304	2,713	76,432	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	311	2,764	78,140	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	319	2,816	79,945	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	319	2,871	81,840	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	318	2,928	83,844	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	319	2,986	85,969	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	321	3,047	88,198	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	324	3,110	90,566	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	327	3,174	93,009	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	331	3,240	95,432	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	335	3,307	97,882	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	343	3,375	100,303	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	353	3,444	102,617	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	361	3,512	104,816	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	366	3,582	106,893	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	372	3,651	108,871	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	380	3,696	110,593	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.

All data sources

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 Oman, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.