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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Cambodia
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	12,122
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	12,317
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	12,504
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	12,691
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	12,881
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	13,076
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	13,276
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	13,461
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	13,630
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	13,808
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	13,990
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	14,162
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	14,322
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	14,480
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	14,637
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	14,793
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	14,994
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	15,238
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	15,480
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	15,717
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	15,944
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	16,149
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	16,338
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	16,514

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.

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