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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Kenya
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	30,192
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	31,025
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	31,919
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	32,865
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	33,846
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	34,880
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	35,961
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	37,093
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	38,248
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	39,441
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	40,668
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	41,900
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	43,198
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	44,470
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	45,639
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	46,808
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	47,983
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	49,095
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	50,201
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	51,357
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	52,522
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	53,691
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	54,867
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	55,924

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,

Kenya

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.