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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date GreeceBurkina FasoCongo - Brazzaville
10,61811,0752,886
10,66211,4052,999
10,71811,8283,113
10,75712,3803,181
10,78312,8293,274
10,80913,1783,400
10,84113,5403,543
10,87413,9173,702
10,90114,3093,859
10,93014,7223,989
10,95915,1524,146
10,97315,6004,324
10,95716,0644,468
10,89816,5634,581
10,81917,0724,667
10,74717,5754,757
10,67718,0944,851
10,63318,6214,951
10,61219,1575,055
10,59019,6985,164
10,57920,2425,279
10,55620,7885,400
10,49921,3365,527
10,43721,8895,655

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 Burkina Faso, Congo - Brazzaville; the database as a whole is cited above.