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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Greece	Djibouti
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,618	646
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,662	669
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,718	693
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,757	716
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,783	691
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,809	657
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,841	666
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,874	679
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,901	694
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,930	709
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,959	725
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,973	741
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,957	757
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,898	774
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,819	792
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,747	810
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,677	828
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,633	847
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,612	865
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,590	884
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,579	898
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,556	912
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,499	924
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,437	937

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

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, Djibouti; the database as a whole is cited above.