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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	Iceland	Ghana	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	19,327	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	19,792	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	20,280	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	20,806	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	21,350	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	21,900	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	22,469	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	23,058	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	23,661	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	24,270	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	24,899	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	25,559	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	26,244	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	26,945	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	27,664	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	28,405	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	29,146	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	29,879	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	30,617	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	31,362	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	32,111	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	32,864	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	33,622	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	34,280	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.

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.