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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Burkina FasoCongo - KinshasaGreece
11,07551,18110,618
11,40552,78210,662
11,82854,45310,718
12,38056,17010,757
12,82957,86010,783
13,17859,59910,809
13,54061,47410,841
13,91763,47910,874
14,30965,59010,901
14,72267,80010,930
15,15270,11410,959
15,60072,55010,973
16,06475,13810,957
16,56377,79210,898
17,07280,53410,819
17,57583,36810,747
18,09486,22910,677
18,62189,19310,633
19,15792,20910,612
19,69895,23210,590
20,24298,32010,579
20,788101,49910,556
21,336104,76710,499
21,889108,17110,437

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

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 Burkina Faso, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.