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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Colombia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	38,365	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	38,911	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	39,411	275
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	39,918	276
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	40,416	278
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	40,899	279
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	41,374	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	41,862	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	42,324	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	42,781	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	43,264	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	43,771	286
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	44,225	287
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	44,660	288
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	45,081	289
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	45,846	290
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	46,290	291
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	46,796	291
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	47,385	292
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	48,222	293
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	49,326	294
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	50,283	294
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	50,978	295
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	51,332	295

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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