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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	South Africa	Djibouti
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	46,257	646
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	46,958	669
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	47,820	693
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	48,480	716
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	48,951	691
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	49,478	657
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	50,054	666
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	50,667	679
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	51,339	694
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	52,077	709
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	52,862	725
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	53,682	741
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	54,518	757
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	55,356	774
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	56,215	792
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	57,075	810
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	57,947	828
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	58,830	847
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	59,715	865
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	60,595	884
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	61,469	898
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	62,355	912
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	62,900	924
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	63,382	937

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).

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 Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.