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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Iran	Mauritania
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	64,704	2,437
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	65,411	2,501
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	66,167	2,566
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	66,689	2,632
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	67,807	2,699
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	68,480	2,768
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	69,325	2,838
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	70,158	2,909
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	71,040	2,981
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	71,942	3,055
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	72,888	3,129
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	73,826	3,205
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	74,625	3,282
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	75,446	3,359
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	76,418	3,438
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	77,521	3,517
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	78,652	3,597
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	79,700	3,677
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	80,725	3,759
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	81,721	3,840
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	82,685	3,942
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	83,614	4,045
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	84,505	4,150
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	85,108	4,259

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.

All data sources

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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 Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.