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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	North Macedonia	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	2,006	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	2,017	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	2,026	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	2,011	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	2,018	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	2,024	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	2,028	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	2,031	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	2,035	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	2,038	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	2,042	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	2,046	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	2,049	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	2,052	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	2,055	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	2,058	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	2,061	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	2,063	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	2,065	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	2,067	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	2,068	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	2,065	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	2,057	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	2,048	85,108

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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Iran

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