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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Benin	United States
Dec 31, 1999	277	6,461	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,677	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,902	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,130	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,360	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,589	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,838	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,089	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,335	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,603	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,884	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,179	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,486	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,805	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,135	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,480	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,842	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,220	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,613	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	353	12,018	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	361	12,370	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	366	12,725	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	372	13,081	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	380	13,439	333,288

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.

All data sources

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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