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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Nigeria	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	121,649	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	125,014	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	128,513	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	132,165	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	135,971	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	139,900	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,914	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	148,019	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	152,195	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	156,434	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	160,751	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	165,142	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	169,607	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	174,142	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	178,737	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	183,362	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	187,979	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	192,594	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	197,417	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	202,498	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	207,699	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	213,021	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	218,473	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	223,735	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.

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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

Nigeria

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.