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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 BarbadosChadOmanGreece
2737,5592,34810,618
2747,8212,40310,662
2758,0922,45710,718
2768,3952,51010,757
2788,7632,56210,783
2799,1912,61310,809
2809,5942,66310,841
2819,9672,71310,874
28210,3382,76410,901
28310,7282,81610,930
28511,1392,87110,959
28611,5502,92810,973
28711,9832,98610,957
28812,4273,04710,898
28912,8953,11010,819
29013,3793,17410,747
29113,8233,24010,677
29114,2773,30710,633
29214,7653,37510,612
29315,2523,44410,590
29415,7503,51210,579
29416,2573,58210,556
29516,7763,65110,499
29517,3073,69610,437

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

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