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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Austria	Tanzania
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,039	32,912
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,059	33,953
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,090	34,974
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,130	36,021
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,166	37,100
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,217	38,167
Dec 31, 2005	296	8,274	39,262
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,317	40,387
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,344	41,557
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,370	42,741
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,390	43,889
Dec 31, 2010	318	8,410	45,132
Dec 31, 2011	319	8,438	46,531
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,476	47,965
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,527	49,437
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,594	50,965
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,680	52,604
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,791	54,336
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,847	56,062
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,890	57,765
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,930	59,465
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,969	61,191
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,004	62,944
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,107	64,835

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

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.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Tanzania; the database as a whole is cited above.