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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Afghanistan	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	22,206	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	22,461	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	22,507	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	23,600	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	25,005	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	25,698	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	26,335	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	27,154	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	27,387	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	27,706	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	28,484	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	29,121	414
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	29,758	416
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	30,420	420
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	31,108	426
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	31,823	435
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	32,564	445
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	33,332	455
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	34,125	468
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	34,941	485
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	35,972	504
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	37,034	516
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	38,127	518
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	39,252	530

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 Afghanistan, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.