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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Burkina Faso	Romania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	11,075	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	11,405	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	11,828	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	12,380	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	12,829	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	13,178	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	13,540	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	13,917	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	14,309	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	14,722	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	15,152	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	15,600	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	16,064	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	16,563	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	17,072	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	17,575	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	18,094	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	18,621	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	19,157	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	19,698	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	20,242	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	20,788	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	21,336	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	21,889	19,266	530

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.