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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	Greece	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	10,618	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	10,662	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	10,718	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	10,757	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	10,783	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	10,809	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	10,841	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	10,874	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	10,901	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	10,930	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	10,959	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	10,973	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	10,957	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	10,898	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	10,819	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	10,747	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	10,677	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	10,633	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	10,612	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	10,590	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	10,579	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	10,556	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	10,499	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	10,437	31,845

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.

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