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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Nepal	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	277	23,087	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	281	23,487	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	285	23,887	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,273	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,645	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	293	24,989	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	296	25,255	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	304	25,484	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	311	25,732	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,998	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,298	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	318	26,664	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,081	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	321	27,505	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	324	27,917	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	327	28,311	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	331	28,678	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	335	29,034	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	343	29,384	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	353	29,718	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	361	30,057	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	366	30,595	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	372	31,311	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	380	31,845	9,188

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.

Israel

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

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