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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Cambodia	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,122	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,317	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,504	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,691	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,881	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,076	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,276	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,461	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	311	13,630	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	319	13,808	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	13,990	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,162	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	319	14,322	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	321	14,480	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	324	14,637	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	327	14,793	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	331	14,994	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	335	15,238	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	343	15,480	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	353	15,717	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	15,944	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,149	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	372	16,338	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	380	16,514	83,811

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.