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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Iraq	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,076	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,748	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	285	23,440	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,212	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,979	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,726	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,531	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,706	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	311	26,429	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	319	26,969	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,024	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	318	28,956	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,974	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	321	31,321	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	324	32,779	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	327	33,857	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	331	34,674	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	335	35,437	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,200	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,015	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,846	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,673	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	372	39,491	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	380	40,364	6,291

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.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.