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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Venezuela	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,188	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	274	23,601	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,011	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	276	24,425	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	278	24,841	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	279	25,255	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	280	25,667	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	281	26,079	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	282	26,589	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	283	27,098	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	285	27,510	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,920	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	287	28,327	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,722	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,111	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,418	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	291	29,693	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	291	29,961	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	292	29,856	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	293	28,858	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,921	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,871	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,316	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	295	28,418	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.

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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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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; the database as a whole is cited above.