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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ghana	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,327	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	19,792	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,280	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	20,806	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,350	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,900	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	22,469	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,058	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,661	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	24,270	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,899	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	25,559	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	26,244	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	26,945	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	27,664	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	28,405	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	29,146	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	29,879	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	30,617	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	31,362	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	32,111	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	32,864	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,622	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,280	37,914

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,