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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Cyprus	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	818	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	826	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	835	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	845	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	855	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	867	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	879	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	894	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	913	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	937	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	962	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	988	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	1,013	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	1,029	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	1,026	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	1,015	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	1,009	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	1,014	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	1,023	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	1,036	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	1,050	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	1,062	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	1,072	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	1,087	63,382

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).

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

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