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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	Malta	Greece	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	387	10,618	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	390	10,662	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	393	10,718	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	396	10,757	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	398	10,783	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	401	10,809	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	404	10,841	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	405	10,874	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	406	10,901	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	409	10,930	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	412	10,959	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	414	10,973	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	416	10,957	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	420	10,898	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	426	10,819	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	435	10,747	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	445	10,677	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	455	10,633	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	468	10,612	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	485	10,590	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	504	10,579	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	516	10,556	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	518	10,499	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	530	10,437	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.