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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosMoldovaGreeceCambodia
2734,24410,61812,122
2744,19910,66212,317
2754,15410,71812,504
2764,10810,75712,691
2784,05910,78312,881
2794,01310,80913,076
2803,96610,84113,276
2813,91910,87413,461
2823,87310,90113,630
2833,82910,93013,808
2853,78810,95913,990
2863,74810,97314,162
2873,70910,95714,322
2883,67110,89814,480
2893,63310,81914,637
2903,59510,74714,793
2913,55810,67714,994
2913,52210,63315,238
2923,48510,61215,480
2933,44810,59015,717
2943,41210,57915,944
2943,37610,55616,149
2953,33910,49916,338
2953,57010,43716,514

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, Moldova, Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.