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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Netherlands	Libya
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	15,817	4,993
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	15,932	5,116
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	16,052	5,237
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	16,155	5,357
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	16,231	5,476
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	16,288	5,595
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	16,326	5,715
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	16,352	5,835
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	16,388	5,967
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	16,452	6,115
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	16,536	6,270
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	16,621	6,432
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	16,699	6,144
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	16,761	5,849
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	16,810	6,010
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	16,871	6,163
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	16,946	6,291
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	17,036	6,415
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	17,137	6,549
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	17,238	6,689
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	17,351	6,826
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	17,448	6,960
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	17,539	7,088
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	17,709	7,169

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.

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