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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Poland	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,358	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,344	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	285	38,339	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,320	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,283	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,268	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	296	38,249	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	304	38,220	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,204	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	319	38,204	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	319	38,572	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	318	38,606	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	319	38,615	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	321	38,623	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	324	38,591	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	327	38,573	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,544	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	335	38,516	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	343	38,511	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	353	38,502	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	361	38,475	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,443	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,250	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	380	37,914	63,382

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,

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490