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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	France	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	277	60,396	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,811	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	285	61,255	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,703	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	289	62,141	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,600	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	296	63,073	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,513	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,906	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,264	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,594	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	318	64,913	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,231	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,552	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	324	65,891	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,212	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,480	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	335	66,730	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,015	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,347	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,660	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	366	67,901	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,114	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,387	68,457

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989