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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	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.

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

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,