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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Greece	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	10,618	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	10,662	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	10,718	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	10,757	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	10,783	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	10,809	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	10,841	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	10,874	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	10,901	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	10,930	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	10,959	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	10,973	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	10,957	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	10,898	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	10,819	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	10,747	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	10,677	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	10,633	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	10,612	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	10,590	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	10,579	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	10,556	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	10,499	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	10,437	19,266

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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