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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Indonesia	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	277	208,105	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	281	211,408	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	285	214,475	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	217,516	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	289	220,549	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	293	224,473	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	296	227,534	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	304	230,739	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	311	233,918	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	319	237,056	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	319	240,140	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	318	243,171	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	319	246,150	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	321	249,086	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	324	251,947	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	327	254,702	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	331	257,351	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	335	259,906	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	343	262,379	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	353	264,789	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	361	267,142	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	366	269,437	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	372	271,674	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	380	273,409	10,200

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,