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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	Dominican Republic	Germany	Greece	Gambia
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	81,439	10,618	1,320
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	81,474	10,662	1,357
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	81,534	10,718	1,393
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	81,595	10,757	1,431
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	81,566	10,783	1,469
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	81,473	10,809	1,508
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	81,354	10,841	1,548
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	81,190	10,874	1,589
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	81,009	10,901	1,630
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	80,781	10,930	1,671
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	80,500	10,959	1,713
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	80,301	10,973	1,755
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	80,292	10,957	1,798
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	80,443	10,898	1,840
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	80,663	10,819	1,883
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	81,000	10,747	1,926
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	81,704	10,677	1,968
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	82,366	10,633	2,010
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	82,674	10,612	2,051
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	82,923	10,590	2,093
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	83,110	10,579	2,147
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	83,178	10,556	2,203
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	83,213	10,499	2,260
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	83,811	10,437	2,316

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.

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 Dominican Republic, Gambia; the database as a whole is cited above.