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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	18,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.