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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Switzerland	China
Dec 31, 1999	277	7,258	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	281	7,296	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	285	7,332	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,384	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,438	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,488	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,532	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	304	7,579	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	311	7,647	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,738	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,825	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,884	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,959	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,044	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,137	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,237	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,332	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,423	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,502	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,565	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,626	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,689	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	372	8,756	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	380	8,834	1,401,693

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.