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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United Kingdom	Ireland
Dec 31, 1999	58,946	3,757
Dec 31, 2000	59,149	3,807
Dec 31, 2001	59,377	3,866
Dec 31, 2002	59,631	3,934
Dec 31, 2003	59,903	4,000
Dec 31, 2004	60,217	4,070
Dec 31, 2005	60,682	4,163
Dec 31, 2006	61,098	4,273
Dec 31, 2007	61,593	4,403
Dec 31, 2008	62,100	4,499
Dec 31, 2009	62,539	4,542
Dec 31, 2010	63,040	4,563
Dec 31, 2011	63,567	4,581
Dec 31, 2012	63,989	4,600
Dec 31, 2013	64,392	4,623
Dec 31, 2014	64,885	4,655
Dec 31, 2015	65,400	4,699
Dec 31, 2016	65,941	4,752
Dec 31, 2017	66,335	4,805
Dec 31, 2018	66,732	4,864
Dec 31, 2019	67,095	4,930
Dec 31, 2020	67,380	4,983
Dec 31, 2021	67,651	5,022
Dec 31, 2022	68,093	5,118

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

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.