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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	United Kingdom	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	277	58,946	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	281	59,149	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	285	59,377	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	288	59,631	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	289	59,903	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	293	60,217	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	296	60,682	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	304	61,098	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	311	61,593	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	319	62,100	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	319	62,539	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	318	63,040	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	319	63,567	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	321	63,989	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	324	64,392	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	327	64,885	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	331	65,400	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	335	65,941	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	66,335	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	353	66,732	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,095	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	366	67,380	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	372	67,651	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,093	7,666

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

No separate list is published for Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.