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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	46,736

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,

Argentina

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.