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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Chile	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	277	15,140	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	281	15,340	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	285	15,513	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	288	15,686	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	289	15,859	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	293	16,029	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	296	16,222	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	304	16,364	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	311	16,536	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	319	16,700	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	319	16,864	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	318	16,999	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	319	17,189	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	321	17,378	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,545	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,720	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	331	17,904	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,099	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	343	18,350	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	353	18,681	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,035	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,385	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,604	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,715	110,593

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.

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828