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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Albania	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	3,085	531
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	3,065	545
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	3,047	559
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	3,038	574
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	3,026	590
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	3,014	606
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	2,998	623
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	2,979	640
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	2,957	657
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	2,934	674
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	2,915	690
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	2,900	706
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	2,892	722
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	2,888	737
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	2,882	752
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	2,876	767
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	2,868	781
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	2,863	795
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	2,861	808
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	2,854	821
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	2,842	837
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	2,825	853
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	2,799	869
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	2,787	885

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