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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	Poland	Albania	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	3,085	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	3,065	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	3,047	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	3,038	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	3,026	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	3,014	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	2,998	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	2,979	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	2,957	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	2,934	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	2,915	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	2,900	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	2,892	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	2,888	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	2,882	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	2,876	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	2,868	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	2,863	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	2,861	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	2,854	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	2,842	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	2,825	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	2,799	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	2,787	31,058

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.

All data sources

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 Albania, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.