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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Netherlands	Iraq
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	15,817	22,076
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	15,932	22,748
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	16,052	23,440
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	16,155	24,212
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	16,231	24,979
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	16,288	25,726
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	16,326	26,531
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	16,352	26,706
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	16,388	26,429
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	16,452	26,969
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	16,536	28,024
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	16,621	28,956
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	16,699	29,974
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	16,761	31,321
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	16,810	32,779
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	16,871	33,857
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	16,946	34,674
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	17,036	35,437
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	17,137	36,200
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	17,238	37,015
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	17,351	37,846
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	17,448	38,673
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	17,539	39,491
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	17,709	40,364

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).

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828