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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	146,693

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.

Jordan

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
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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.