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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	Chad
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	7,559
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	7,821
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	8,092
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	8,395
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	8,763
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	9,191
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	9,594
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	9,967
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	10,338
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	10,728
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	11,139
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	11,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	11,983
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	12,427
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	12,895
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	13,379
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	13,823
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	14,277
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	14,765
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	15,252
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	15,750
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	16,257
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	16,776
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	17,307

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 Chad; the database as a whole is cited above.