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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	85,108

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,

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828