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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	Thailand	Greece	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	10,618	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	10,662	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	10,718	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	10,757	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	10,783	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	10,809	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	10,841	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	10,874	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	10,901	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	10,930	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	10,959	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	10,973	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	10,957	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	10,898	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	10,819	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	10,747	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	10,677	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	10,633	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	10,612	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	10,590	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	10,579	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	10,556	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	10,499	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	10,437	83,811

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.