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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Oman	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	2,348	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	2,403	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	2,457	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	2,510	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	2,562	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	2,613	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	2,663	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	2,713	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	2,764	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	2,816	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	2,871	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	2,928	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	2,986	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	3,047	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	3,110	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	3,174	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	3,240	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	3,307	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	3,375	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	3,444	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	3,512	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	3,582	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	3,651	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	3,696	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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.