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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Greece	India
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	1,349,060

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

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.