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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Egypt	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	277	66,001	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	281	67,377	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	285	68,790	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	288	70,269	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	289	71,785	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	293	73,298	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	296	74,832	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	304	76,432	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	311	78,140	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	319	79,945	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	319	81,840	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	318	83,844	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	319	85,969	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	321	88,198	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	324	90,566	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	327	93,009	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	331	95,432	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	335	97,882	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	343	100,303	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	353	102,617	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	361	104,816	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	366	106,893	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	372	108,871	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	380	110,593	48,065

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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.