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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Mexico
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	97,242
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	98,403
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	99,599
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	100,863
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	102,132
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	103,334
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	104,508
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	105,738
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	107,083
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	108,554
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	110,061
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	111,468
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	112,826
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	114,163
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	115,471
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	116,757
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	118,017
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	117,444
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	118,799
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	120,289
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	121,872
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	123,260
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	124,462
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	125,247

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,

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350