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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Venezuela	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	23,188	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	23,601	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	24,011	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	24,425	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	24,841	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,255	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	25,667	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	26,079	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	26,589	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	27,098	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	27,510	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,920	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	28,327	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,722	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,111	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,418	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	29,693	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	29,961	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	29,856	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	28,858	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	27,921	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	27,871	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	28,316	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	28,418	37,914

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.

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,