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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Greece	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	10,618	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	10,662	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	10,718	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	10,757	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	10,783	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	10,809	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	10,841	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	10,874	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	10,901	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	10,930	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	10,959	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	10,973	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	10,957	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	10,898	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	10,819	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	10,747	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	10,677	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	10,633	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	10,612	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	10,590	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	10,579	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	10,556	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	10,499	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	10,437	3,696

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.