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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Ecuador	Greece	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	10,618	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	10,662	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	10,718	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	10,757	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	10,783	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	10,809	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	10,841	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	10,874	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	10,901	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	10,930	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	10,959	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	10,973	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	10,957	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	10,898	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	10,819	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	10,747	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	10,677	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	10,633	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	10,612	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	10,590	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	10,579	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	10,556	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	10,499	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	10,437	19,266

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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