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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Greece	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	63,382

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490