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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Lebanon	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	3,460	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	3,499	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	3,554	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	3,610	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	3,665	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	3,721	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	3,777	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	3,853	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	3,954	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	4,036	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	4,082	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	4,097	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	4,115	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	4,206	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	4,696	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,365	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,640	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	5,688	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	5,680	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	5,562	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	5,331	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	4,986	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	4,802	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	4,713	37,914

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.

Lebanon

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,