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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Greece	Romania	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,618	22,414	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,662	22,262	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,718	22,106	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,757	21,931	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,783	21,828	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,809	21,704	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,841	21,571	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,874	21,443	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,901	21,129	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,930	20,779	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,959	20,607	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,973	20,485	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	10,957	20,385	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	10,898	20,296	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	10,819	20,224	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	10,747	20,151	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	10,677	20,055	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	10,633	19,938	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	10,612	19,823	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	10,590	19,713	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	10,579	19,622	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	10,556	19,496	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	10,499	19,351	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	10,437	19,266	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.

All data sources

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.