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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Germany	Chad
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	7,559
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	7,821
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	8,092
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	8,395
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	8,763
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	9,191
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	9,594
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	9,967
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	10,338
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	10,728
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	11,139
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	11,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	11,983
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	12,427
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	12,895
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	13,379
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	13,823
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	14,277
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	14,765
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	15,252
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	15,750
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	16,257
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	16,776
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	17,307

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.

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