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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Denmark	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,322	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,339	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,358	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,377	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,391	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,404	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,420	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,438	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	311	5,461	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	319	5,494	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	319	5,524	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	318	5,548	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	319	5,571	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	321	5,592	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	324	5,614	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,644	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,683	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	335	5,730	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,766	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,795	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,818	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	366	5,831	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	372	5,855	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	380	5,907	40,364

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.

Iraq

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

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