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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	5,216

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,

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.