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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	108,171

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.