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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	United Kingdom	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	277	58,946	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	281	59,149	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	285	59,377	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	288	59,631	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	289	59,903	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	293	60,217	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	296	60,682	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	304	61,098	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	311	61,593	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	319	62,100	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	319	62,539	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	318	63,040	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	319	63,567	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	321	63,989	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	324	64,392	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	327	64,885	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	331	65,400	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	335	65,941	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	343	66,335	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	353	66,732	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,095	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	366	67,380	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	372	67,651	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,093	46,498

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.