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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	18,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.