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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sudan	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	277	26,168	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	281	26,771	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	285	27,387	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	288	28,017	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	289	28,662	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	293	29,321	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	296	29,996	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	304	30,686	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	311	31,393	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	319	32,137	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,078	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	318	33,891	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,568	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	321	35,293	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	324	36,093	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	327	37,058	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,165	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	335	39,294	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	343	40,512	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	353	41,764	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	361	42,952	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	366	44,121	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	372	45,290	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,498	110,593

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.