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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Greece	Ethiopia
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	63,575
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	65,213
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	66,889
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	68,649
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	70,491
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	72,389
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	74,327
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	76,326
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	78,411
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	80,564
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	82,787
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	85,096
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	87,530
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	90,066
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	92,632
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	95,337
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	98,114
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	100,858
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	103,654
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	106,466
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	109,267
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	112,100
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	114,964
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	117,924

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

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