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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Italy	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	277	56,940	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	281	56,966	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	285	57,004	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	288	57,114	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	289	57,423	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	293	57,852	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	296	58,191	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	304	58,424	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	311	58,781	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	319	59,236	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	319	59,580	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	318	59,844	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	319	60,052	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	321	60,216	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	324	60,337	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	327	60,346	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	331	60,255	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	335	60,140	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	343	60,027	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	353	59,902	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	361	59,754	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	366	59,464	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	372	59,158	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	380	58,966	110,593

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.

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

Egypt

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