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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Bolivia	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,007	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,177	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,351	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,529	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,711	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,895	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,081	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,268	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,457	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,647	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,836	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,024	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,211	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,397	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,581	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,763	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,942	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,118	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,289	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,456	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,621	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,775	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,917	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,060	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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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.