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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	Romania	Greece	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	10,618	138
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	10,662	141
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	10,718	144
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	10,757	147
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	10,783	151
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	10,809	154
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	10,841	158
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	10,874	161
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	10,901	165
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	10,930	168
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	10,959	172
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	10,973	176
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	10,957	180
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	10,898	183
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	10,819	187
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	10,747	190
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	10,677	194
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	10,633	198
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	10,612	201
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	10,590	204
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	10,579	208
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	10,556	212
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	10,499	216
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	10,437	220

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.