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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Russia	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	277	147,218	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	281	146,600	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	285	145,980	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	288	145,310	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	289	144,652	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	293	144,071	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	296	143,522	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	304	143,053	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	311	142,809	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	319	142,746	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	319	142,789	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	318	142,853	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	319	142,964	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	321	143,205	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	324	143,510	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	327	146,094	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	331	146,410	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	335	146,678	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	343	146,846	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	353	146,834	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	361	146,768	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	366	146,463	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	372	145,849	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	380	146,693	6,910

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 Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.