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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Laos	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,286	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,397	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,499	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,578	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,654	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,746	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,836	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,931	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,035	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,145	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,257	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,368	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,477	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,586	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	324	6,695	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	327	6,804	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	331	6,912	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	335	7,019	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	343	7,127	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	353	7,234	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	7,343	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	366	7,452	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	372	7,560	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	380	7,666	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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.