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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Namibia	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	1,841	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	1,893	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	1,945	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	1,981	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	2,008	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	2,034	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	2,060	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	2,086	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	2,113	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	2,141	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	2,170	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	2,201	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	2,232	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	2,268	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	2,312	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	2,360	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	2,408	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	2,456	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	2,505	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	2,554	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	2,602	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	2,651	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	2,700	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	2,739	68,093

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).

United Kingdom

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972

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