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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Italy	India
Dec 31, 1999	277	56,940	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	281	56,966	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	285	57,004	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	288	57,114	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	289	57,423	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	293	57,852	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	296	58,191	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	304	58,424	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	311	58,781	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	319	59,236	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	319	59,580	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	318	59,844	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	319	60,052	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	60,216	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	60,337	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	327	60,346	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	331	60,255	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	335	60,140	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	343	60,027	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	353	59,902	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	361	59,754	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	366	59,464	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	372	59,158	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	380	58,966	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.