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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Greece	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	34,081

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

Saudi Arabia

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