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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Cuba	Djibouti
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	11,108	646
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	11,147	669
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	11,179	693
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	11,210	716
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	11,241	691
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	11,260	657
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	11,268	666
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	11,266	679
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	11,261	694
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	11,258	709
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	11,260	725
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	11,262	741
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	11,264	757
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	11,262	774
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	11,250	792
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	11,238	810
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	11,214	828
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	11,180	847
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	11,147	865
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	11,116	884
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	11,105	898
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	11,089	912
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	11,046	924
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	11,003	937

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).

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

No separate list is published for Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.