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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Greece	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	28,418

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190