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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bangladesh	Greece	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	132,907	10,618	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	135,207	10,662	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	137,420	10,718	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	139,573	10,757	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	141,650	10,783	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	143,644	10,809	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	145,546	10,841	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	147,376	10,874	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	149,047	10,901	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	150,562	10,930	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	152,189	10,959	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	153,927	10,973	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	155,634	10,957	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	157,326	10,898	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	158,999	10,819	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	160,650	10,747	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	162,273	10,677	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	163,938	10,633	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	165,655	10,612	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	167,358	10,590	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	169,045	10,579	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	170,709	10,556	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	172,354	10,499	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	174,217	10,437	2,748

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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 Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.