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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	7,387

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

No separate list is published for Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.