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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Israel	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,927	152
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,088	153
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,236	154
Dec 31, 2002	288	6,366	155
Dec 31, 2003	289	6,484	156
Dec 31, 2004	293	6,603	157
Dec 31, 2005	296	6,723	157
Dec 31, 2006	304	6,846	158
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,972	159
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,100	160
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,226	160
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,360	161
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,498	162
Dec 31, 2012	321	7,637	162
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,781	163
Dec 31, 2014	327	7,931	163
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,091	164
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,251	164
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,412	165
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,576	166
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,742	166
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,899	167
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,047	167
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,188	167

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.

Israel

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

No separate list is published for St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.