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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	France	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	60,396	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,811	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	61,255	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,703	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	62,141	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,600	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	63,073	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,513	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,906	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,264	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,594	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	64,913	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,231	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,552	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	65,891	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,212	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,480	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	66,730	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,015	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,347	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,660	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	67,901	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,114	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,387	34,081

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

Saudi Arabia

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