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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	United States	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	277	279,040	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	281	282,162	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	285	284,969	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	288	287,625	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	289	290,108	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	293	292,805	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	296	295,517	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	304	298,380	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	311	301,231	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	319	304,094	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	319	306,772	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	318	309,327	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	319	311,583	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	321	313,878	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	324	316,060	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	327	318,386	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	331	320,739	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	335	323,072	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	343	325,122	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	353	326,838	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	361	328,330	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	366	331,512	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	372	332,032	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	380	333,288	9,690

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).

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.