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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	Burkina Faso	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	11,075	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	11,405	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	11,828	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	12,380	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	12,829	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	13,178	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	13,540	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	13,917	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	14,309	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	14,722	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	15,152	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	15,600	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	16,064	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	16,563	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	17,072	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	17,575	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	18,094	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	18,621	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	19,157	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	19,698	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	20,242	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	20,788	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	21,336	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	21,889	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

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

No separate list is published for Tunisia, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.