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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	Dominica	Burkina Faso	Albania	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	70	11,075	3,085	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	71	11,405	3,065	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	71	11,828	3,047	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,380	3,038	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	72	12,829	3,026	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,178	3,014	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,540	2,998	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,917	2,979	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,309	2,957	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,722	2,934	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	73	15,152	2,915	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	73	15,600	2,900	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	73	16,064	2,892	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	73	16,563	2,888	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	73	17,072	2,882	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	73	17,575	2,876	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	74	18,094	2,868	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	74	18,621	2,863	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,157	2,861	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,698	2,854	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	75	20,242	2,842	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	75	20,788	2,825	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	76	21,336	2,799	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	76	21,889	2,787	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

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 Dominica, Burkina Faso, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.