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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Türkiye	Sweden
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	8,858
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	8,872
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	8,896
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	8,925
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	8,958
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	8,994
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	9,030
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	9,081
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	9,148
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	9,220
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	9,299
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	9,378
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	9,449
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	9,519
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	9,600
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	9,696
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	9,799
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	9,923
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	10,058
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	10,175
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	10,279
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	10,354
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	10,416
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	10,487

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140