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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Latvia	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	277	2,386	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	281	2,363	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	285	2,333	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	2,306	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	289	2,284	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	293	2,259	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	296	2,235	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	304	2,215	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	311	2,197	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	319	2,174	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	319	2,138	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	318	2,093	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	319	2,055	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	321	2,030	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	324	2,009	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	327	1,991	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	331	1,974	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	335	1,956	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	343	1,938	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	353	1,923	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	361	1,910	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	366	1,897	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	372	1,880	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	380	1,883	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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