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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date AfghanistanGreeceEstonia
22,20610,6181,378
22,46110,6621,400
22,50710,7181,391
23,60010,7571,382
25,00510,7831,374
25,69810,8091,365
26,33510,8411,357
27,15410,8741,349
27,38710,9011,341
27,70610,9301,337
28,48410,9591,334
29,12110,9731,332
29,75810,9571,328
30,42010,8981,324
31,10810,8191,319
31,82310,7471,314
32,56410,6771,312
33,33210,6331,314
34,12510,6121,314
34,94110,5901,318
35,97210,5791,323
37,03410,5561,327
38,12710,4991,329
39,25210,4371,330

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

Greece

  • 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
  • 1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
  • 1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
  • 1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Afghanistan, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.