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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Chile
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	15,140
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	15,340
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	15,513
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	15,686
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	15,859
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	16,029
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	16,222
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	16,364
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	16,536
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	16,700
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	16,864
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	16,999
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	17,189
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	17,378
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	17,545
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	17,720
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	17,904
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	18,099
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	18,350
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	18,681
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	19,035
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	19,385
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	19,604
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	19,715

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.

Egypt

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315