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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TunisiaCongo - KinshasaIraq
9,41751,18122,076
9,51452,78222,748
9,61354,45323,440
9,71156,17024,212
9,81057,86024,979
9,90659,59925,726
9,99761,47426,531
10,08763,47926,706
10,17865,59026,429
10,27467,80026,969
10,37770,11428,024
10,49172,55028,956
10,61275,13829,974
10,73777,79231,321
10,86680,53432,779
10,99683,36833,857
11,12486,22934,674
11,24889,19335,437
11,36592,20936,200
11,47795,23237,015
11,58398,32037,846
11,681101,49938,673
11,772104,76739,491
11,862108,17140,364

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

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 Tunisia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.