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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Mali	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,596	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,833	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,890	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	11,007	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	11,307	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	11,579	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	11,804	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	12,043	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	12,337	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	12,657	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	12,986	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	13,325	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	13,679	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	14,040	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	14,412	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	14,803	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,210	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	15,629	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,060	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,507	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,967	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	17,442	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,930	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	18,494	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.

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,

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