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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Iceland	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	277	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	281	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	285	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	288	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	289	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	293	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	296	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	304	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	311	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	319	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	319	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	318	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	319	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	321	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	324	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	327	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	331	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	335	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	343	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	353	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	361	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	366	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	372	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	380	3,876

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project