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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	59,748	10,618	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	60,165	10,662	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	60,746	10,718	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	61,323	10,757	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	61,884	10,783	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	62,425	10,809	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	62,956	10,841	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	63,467	10,874	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	63,937	10,901	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	64,381	10,930	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	64,804	10,959	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	65,208	10,973	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	65,599	10,957	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	65,970	10,898	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	66,332	10,819	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	66,673	10,747	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	66,975	10,677	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	67,250	10,633	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	67,506	10,612	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	67,750	10,590	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	67,975	10,579	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	68,180	10,556	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	68,366	10,499	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	68,457	10,437	530

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

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