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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	United States	France
Dec 31, 1999	277	279,040	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	281	282,162	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	285	284,969	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	288	287,625	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	289	290,108	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	293	292,805	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	296	295,517	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	304	298,380	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	311	301,231	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	319	304,094	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	319	306,772	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	318	309,327	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	319	311,583	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	321	313,878	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	324	316,060	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	327	318,386	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	331	320,739	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	335	323,072	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	343	325,122	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	353	326,838	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	361	328,330	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	366	331,512	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	372	332,032	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	380	333,288	68,387

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.

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).

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987