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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date EthiopiaAlbaniaGreece
63,5753,08510,618
65,2133,06510,662
66,8893,04710,718
68,6493,03810,757
70,4913,02610,783
72,3893,01410,809
74,3272,99810,841
76,3262,97910,874
78,4112,95710,901
80,5642,93410,930
82,7872,91510,959
85,0962,90010,973
87,5302,89210,957
90,0662,88810,898
92,6322,88210,819
95,3372,87610,747
98,1142,86810,677
100,8582,86310,633
103,6542,86110,612
106,4662,85410,590
109,2672,84210,579
112,1002,82510,556
114,9642,79910,499
117,9242,78710,437

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 Ethiopia, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.