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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Dominican Republic	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,175	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,301	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,427	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,553	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,678	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,801	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	8,924	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	9,044	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	9,164	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	9,281	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	9,398	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,512	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,627	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,742	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	9,855	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	9,965	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,072	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,177	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,281	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,385	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,487	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,587	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,686	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,793	37,914

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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