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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Türkiye	United States
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	333,288

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).