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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	United States	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	279,040	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	282,162	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	284,969	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	287,625	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	290,108	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	292,805	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	295,517	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	298,380	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	301,231	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	304,094	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	306,772	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	309,327	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	311,583	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	313,878	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	316,060	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	318,386	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	320,739	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	323,072	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	325,122	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	326,838	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	328,330	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	331,512	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	332,032	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	333,288	5,907

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.

All data sources

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

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).

No separate list is published for Tunisia, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.