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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Bulgaria	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,091	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,052	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,798	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,755	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,710	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,668	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,628	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,587	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,549	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,513	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,475	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,425	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,242	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	7,200	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	7,160	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	7,119	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	7,074	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,024	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,973	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,923	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,874	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,833	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,778	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,720	10,437

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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.