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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Portugal	Latvia
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,144	2,386
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,215	2,363
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	2,333
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,344	2,306
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,383	2,284
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,408	2,259
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,427	2,235
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,446	2,215
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,467	2,197
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,482	2,174
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,492	2,138
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,497	2,093
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,481	2,055
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,439	2,030
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,382	2,009
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,326	1,991
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,283	1,974
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,251	1,956
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,226	1,938
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,209	1,923
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,212	1,910
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,223	1,897
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,214	1,880
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,200	1,883

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.

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

No separate list is published for Latvia; the database as a whole is cited above.