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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Israel	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,927	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,088	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,236	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	288	6,366	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	289	6,484	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	293	6,603	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	296	6,723	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	304	6,846	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,972	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,100	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,226	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,360	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,498	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	321	7,637	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,781	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	327	7,931	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,091	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,251	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,412	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,576	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,742	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,899	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,047	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,188	2,059

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 Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.