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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Barbados	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	273	277
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	274	281
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	275	285
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	276	288
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	278	289
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	279	293
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	280	296
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	281	304
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	282	311
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	283	319
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	285	319
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	286	318
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	287	319
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	288	321
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	289	324
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	290	327
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	291	331
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	291	335
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	292	343
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	293	353
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	294	361
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	294	366
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	295	372
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	295	380

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.