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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	South Africa	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	46,257	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	46,958	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	47,820	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	48,480	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	48,951	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	49,478	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	50,054	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	50,667	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	51,339	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	52,077	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	52,862	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	53,682	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	54,518	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	55,356	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	56,215	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	57,075	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	57,947	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	58,830	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	59,715	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	60,595	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	61,469	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	62,355	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	62,900	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	63,382	10,437

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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995