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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCongo - KinshasaGreeceHaiti
27351,18110,6188,121
27452,78210,6628,279
27554,45310,7188,430
27656,17010,7578,580
27857,86010,7838,739
27959,59910,8098,900
28061,47410,8419,061
28163,47910,8749,216
28265,59010,9019,364
28367,80010,9309,508
28570,11410,9599,652
28672,55010,9739,553
28775,13810,9579,670
28877,79210,8989,793
28980,53410,8199,922
29083,36810,74710,047
29186,22910,67710,254
29189,19310,63310,486
29292,20910,61210,647
29395,23210,59010,788
29498,32010,57910,933
294101,49910,55611,077
295104,76710,49911,215
295108,17110,43711,349

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.

All data sources

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

No separate list is published for Barbados, Congo - Kinshasa, Haiti; the database as a whole is cited above.