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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosGreeceOmanMorocco
27310,6182,34828,400
27410,6622,40328,744
27510,7182,45729,094
27610,7572,51029,447
27810,7832,56229,806
27910,8092,61330,169
28010,8412,66330,552
28110,8742,71330,953
28210,9012,76431,354
28310,9302,81631,754
28510,9592,87132,154
28610,9732,92832,553
28710,9572,98632,951
28810,8983,04733,346
28910,8193,11033,737
29010,7473,17434,124
29110,6773,24034,511
29110,6333,30734,898
29210,6123,37535,279
29310,5903,44435,653
29410,5793,51236,018
29410,5563,58236,375
29510,4993,65136,723
29510,4373,69637,101

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, Oman, Morocco; the database as a whole is cited above.