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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Barbados	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	273	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	274	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	275	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	276	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	278	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	279	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	280	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	281	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	282	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	283	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	285	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	286	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	287	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	288	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	289	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	290	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	291	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	291	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	292	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	293	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	294	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	294	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	295	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	295	21,889

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 Barbados, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.