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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Greece	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	10,618	273
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	10,662	274
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	10,718	275
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	10,757	276
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	10,783	278
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	10,809	279
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	10,841	280
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	10,874	281
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	10,901	282
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	10,930	283
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	10,959	285
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	10,973	286
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	10,957	287
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	10,898	288
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	10,819	289
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	10,747	290
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	10,677	291
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	10,633	291
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	10,612	292
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	10,590	293
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	10,579	294
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	10,556	294
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	10,499	295
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	10,437	295

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

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.