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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	South Africa	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	46,257	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	46,958	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	47,820	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	48,480	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	48,951	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	49,478	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	50,054	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	50,667	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	51,339	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	52,077	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	52,862	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	53,682	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	54,518	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	55,356	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	56,215	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	57,075	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	57,947	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	58,830	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	59,715	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	60,595	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	61,469	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	62,355	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	62,900	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	63,382	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.

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

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,