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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Cyprus
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	818
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	826
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	835
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	845
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	855
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	867
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	879
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	894
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	913
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	937
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	962
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	988
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	1,013
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	1,029
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	1,026
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	1,015
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	1,009
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	1,014
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	1,023
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	1,036
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	1,050
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	1,062
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	1,072
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	1,087

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 Cyprus; the database as a whole is cited above.