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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Benin	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	6,461	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,677	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,902	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,130	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,360	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,589	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,838	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,089	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,335	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,603	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,884	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,179	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,486	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,805	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,135	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,480	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,842	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,220	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,613	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	12,018	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	12,370	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	12,725	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	13,081	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	13,439	10,437

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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