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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sierra Leone	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	277	3,736	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	281	3,809	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,043	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,287	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	289	4,466	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	293	4,602	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	296	4,708	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	304	4,818	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	311	4,918	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	319	5,023	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	319	5,132	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	318	5,246	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	319	5,364	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	321	5,486	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	324	5,613	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	327	5,744	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	331	5,879	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	335	6,019	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	343	6,163	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	353	6,312	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	361	6,461	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	366	6,611	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	372	6,761	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	380	6,910	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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