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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Germany	India
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	1,349,060

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.