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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Uzbekistan	Trinidad & Tobago
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	24,701	1,301
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	25,042	1,303
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	25,372	1,308
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	25,696	1,314
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	25,992	1,320
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	26,268	1,326
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	26,540	1,332
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	26,812	1,338
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	27,081	1,344
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	27,347	1,352
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	27,609	1,359
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	27,869	1,365
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	28,132	1,372
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	28,398	1,379
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	28,666	1,386
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	28,934	1,392
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	29,205	1,399
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	29,480	1,405
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	29,756	1,411
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	30,031	1,436
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	30,305	1,452
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	30,576	1,448
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	30,843	1,450
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	31,337	1,456

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).

No separate list is published for Uzbekistan, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.