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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Belgium	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	10,227	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	10,252	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	10,288	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	10,334	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	10,377	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	10,422	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	10,480	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	10,549	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	10,627	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	10,711	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	10,797	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	10,897	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	11,039	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	11,108	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	11,160	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	11,210	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	11,275	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	11,332	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	11,376	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	11,429	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	11,491	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	11,546	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	11,594	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	11,695	3,876

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

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project