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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 FasoOmanLuxembourg
10,61811,0752,348433
10,66211,4052,403438
10,71811,8282,457443
10,75712,3802,510448
10,78312,8292,562454
10,80913,1782,613460
10,84113,5402,663467
10,87413,9172,713474
10,90114,3092,764482
10,93014,7222,816491
10,95915,1522,871500
10,97315,6002,928509
10,95716,0642,986521
10,89816,5633,047533
10,81917,0723,110547
10,74717,5753,174560
10,67718,0943,240571
10,63318,6213,307586
10,61219,1573,375599
10,59019,6983,444610
10,57920,2423,512623
10,55620,7883,582633
10,49921,3363,651643
10,43721,8893,696651

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.

All data sources

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, Oman, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.