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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Israel	Senegal
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,927	10,070
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,088	10,305
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,236	10,576
Dec 31, 2002	288	6,366	10,864
Dec 31, 2003	289	6,484	11,172
Dec 31, 2004	293	6,603	11,498
Dec 31, 2005	296	6,723	11,839
Dec 31, 2006	304	6,846	12,204
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,972	12,584
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,100	12,978
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,226	13,382
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,360	13,794
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,498	14,226
Dec 31, 2012	321	7,637	14,668
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,781	15,121
Dec 31, 2014	327	7,931	15,589
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,091	16,066
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,251	16,549
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,412	17,044
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,576	17,535
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,742	18,021
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,899	18,518
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,047	19,016
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,188	19,512

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 Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.