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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Cuba	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,108	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,147	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,179	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	11,210	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	11,241	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	11,260	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	11,268	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	11,266	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	11,261	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	11,258	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	11,260	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	11,262	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,264	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,262	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,250	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,238	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,214	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,180	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,147	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,116	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,105	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,089	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,046	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,003	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.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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