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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	9,188

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

Israel

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