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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Cuba	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	11,108	627
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	11,147	659
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	11,179	691
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	11,210	724
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	11,241	757
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	11,260	850
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	11,268	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	11,266	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	11,261	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	11,258	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	11,260	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	11,262	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	11,264	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	11,262	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	11,250	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	11,238	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	11,214	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	11,180	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	11,147	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	11,116	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	11,105	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	11,089	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	11,046	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	11,003	2,559

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

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.