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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Denmark	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,322	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,339	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,358	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,377	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,391	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,404	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,420	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,438	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	311	5,461	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	319	5,494	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	319	5,524	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	318	5,548	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	319	5,571	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	321	5,592	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	324	5,614	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,644	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,683	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	335	5,730	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,766	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,795	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,818	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	366	5,831	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	372	5,855	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	380	5,907	20,985

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.

Syria

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.