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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	Oman	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	22,414	2,348	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	22,262	2,403	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	22,106	2,457	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,931	2,510	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	21,828	2,562	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	21,704	2,613	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	21,571	2,663	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	21,443	2,713	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,129	2,764	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	20,779	2,816	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,607	2,871	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	20,485	2,928	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	20,385	2,986	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	20,296	3,047	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	20,224	3,110	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	20,151	3,174	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	20,055	3,240	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	19,938	3,307	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	19,823	3,375	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	19,713	3,444	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	19,622	3,512	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	19,496	3,582	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	19,351	3,651	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	19,266	3,696	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.

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