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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Mali	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,596	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,833	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,890	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	288	11,007	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	289	11,307	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	293	11,579	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	296	11,804	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	304	12,043	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	311	12,337	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	319	12,657	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	319	12,986	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	318	13,325	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	319	13,679	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	321	14,040	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	324	14,412	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	14,803	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,210	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	335	15,629	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,060	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,507	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,967	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	366	17,442	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,930	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	380	18,494	5,458

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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