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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sudan	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	277	26,168	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	281	26,771	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	285	27,387	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	288	28,017	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	289	28,662	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	293	29,321	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	296	29,996	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	304	30,686	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	311	31,393	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	319	32,137	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,078	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	318	33,891	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,568	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	321	35,293	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	324	36,093	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	327	37,058	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,165	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	335	39,294	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	343	40,512	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	353	41,764	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	361	42,952	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	366	44,121	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	372	45,290	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,498	40,364

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.