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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	Germany	Iceland	Burkina Faso	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	277	11,075	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	281	11,405	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	285	11,828	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	288	12,380	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	289	12,829	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	293	13,178	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	296	13,540	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	304	13,917	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	311	14,309	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	319	14,722	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	319	15,152	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	318	15,600	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	319	16,064	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	321	16,563	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	324	17,072	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	327	17,575	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	331	18,094	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	335	18,621	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	343	19,157	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	353	19,698	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	361	20,242	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	366	20,788	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	372	21,336	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	380	21,889	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.

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.