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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 BarbadosOmanGreeceChad
2732,34810,6187,559
2742,40310,6627,821
2752,45710,7188,092
2762,51010,7578,395
2782,56210,7838,763
2792,61310,8099,191
2802,66310,8419,594
2812,71310,8749,967
2822,76410,90110,338
2832,81610,93010,728
2852,87110,95911,139
2862,92810,97311,550
2872,98610,95711,983
2883,04710,89812,427
2893,11010,81912,895
2903,17410,74713,379
2913,24010,67713,823
2913,30710,63314,277
2923,37510,61214,765
2933,44410,59015,252
2943,51210,57915,750
2943,58210,55616,257
2953,65110,49916,776
2953,69610,43717,307

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, Oman, Chad; the database as a whole is cited above.