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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Uganda	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	277	23,408	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	281	24,195	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	285	24,992	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	288	25,846	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	289	26,661	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	293	27,414	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	296	28,200	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	304	29,021	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	311	29,846	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	319	30,647	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	319	31,469	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	318	32,343	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	319	33,257	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,234	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,271	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	327	36,419	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	331	37,673	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	335	39,157	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	343	40,879	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	353	42,329	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	361	43,639	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	366	45,120	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,645	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	380	48,065	110,593

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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Egypt

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 – 1500: 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.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828