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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sri Lanka	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,354	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	19,610	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	19,838	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	20,060	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	20,297	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	20,529	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	20,703	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	20,917	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,120	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	21,315	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	21,503	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	21,713	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	21,918	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	22,120	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	22,320	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	22,517	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	22,711	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	22,899	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	23,080	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	23,254	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	23,420	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	23,579	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	23,732	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	23,796	10,437

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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