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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Poland	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	38,358	277
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	38,344	281
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	38,339	285
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	38,320	288
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	38,283	289
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	38,268	293
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	38,249	296
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	38,220	304
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	38,204	311
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	38,204	319
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	38,572	319
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	38,606	318
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	38,615	319
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	38,623	321
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	38,591	324
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	38,573	327
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	38,544	331
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	38,516	335
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	38,511	343
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	38,502	353
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	38,475	361
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	38,443	366
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	38,250	372
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	37,914	380

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.