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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cameroon	Laos	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	15,483	5,286	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	15,913	5,397	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	16,354	5,499	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	16,815	5,578	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	17,289	5,654	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	17,764	5,746	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	18,249	5,836	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	18,746	5,931	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	19,278	6,035	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	19,843	6,145	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	20,419	6,257	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	21,002	6,368	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	21,586	6,477	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	22,181	6,586	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	22,800	6,695	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	23,513	6,804	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	24,273	6,912	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	24,995	7,019	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	25,680	7,127	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	26,373	7,234	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	27,114	7,343	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	27,878	7,452	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	28,663	7,560	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	29,417	7,666	10,437

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 Cameroon, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.