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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Iran	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	64,704	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,411	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,167	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	66,689	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	67,807	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	68,480	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	69,325	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	70,158	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,040	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	71,942	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	72,888	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	73,826	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	74,625	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	75,446	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	76,418	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	77,521	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	78,652	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	79,700	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	80,725	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	81,721	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	82,685	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,614	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	84,505	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	85,108	37,914

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.

Iran

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,