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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Switzerland	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	277	7,258	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	281	7,296	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	285	7,332	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,384	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,438	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,488	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,532	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	304	7,579	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	311	7,647	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,738	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,825	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,884	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,959	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,044	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,137	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,237	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,332	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,423	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,502	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,565	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,626	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,689	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	372	8,756	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	380	8,834	18,494

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

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