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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Greece	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	110,593

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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