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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Thailand	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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