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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Greece	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	10,618	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	10,662	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	10,718	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	10,757	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	10,783	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	10,809	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	10,841	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	10,874	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	10,901	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	10,930	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	10,959	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	10,973	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	10,957	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	10,898	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	10,819	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	10,747	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	10,677	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	10,633	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	10,612	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	10,590	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	10,579	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	10,556	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	10,499	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	10,437	68,457

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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