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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Greece	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	10,618	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	10,662	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	10,718	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	10,757	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	10,783	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	10,809	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	10,841	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	10,874	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	10,901	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	10,930	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	10,959	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	10,973	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	10,957	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	10,898	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	10,819	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	10,747	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	10,677	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	10,633	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	10,612	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	10,590	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	10,579	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	10,556	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	10,499	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	10,437	2,787

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.