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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sudan	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	277	26,168	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	281	26,771	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	285	27,387	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	288	28,017	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	289	28,662	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	293	29,321	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	296	29,996	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	304	30,686	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	311	31,393	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	319	32,137	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,078	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	318	33,891	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,568	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	321	35,293	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	324	36,093	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	327	37,058	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,165	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	335	39,294	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	343	40,512	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	353	41,764	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	361	42,952	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	366	44,121	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	372	45,290	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,498	68,093

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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