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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	France	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	277	60,396	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,811	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	285	61,255	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,703	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	289	62,141	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,600	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	296	63,073	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,513	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,906	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,264	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,594	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	318	64,913	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,231	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,552	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	324	65,891	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,212	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,480	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	335	66,730	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,015	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,347	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,660	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	366	67,901	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,114	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,387	6,291

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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