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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Greece	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	10,618	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	10,662	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	10,718	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	10,757	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	10,783	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	10,809	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	10,841	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	10,874	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	10,901	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	10,930	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	10,959	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	10,973	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	10,957	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	10,898	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	10,819	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	10,747	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	10,677	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	10,633	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	10,612	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	10,590	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	10,579	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	10,556	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	10,499	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	10,437	7,432

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