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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Laos	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	5,286	78
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	5,397	79
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	5,499	80
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	5,578	81
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	5,654	82
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	5,746	83
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	5,836	84
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	5,931	85
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	6,035	86
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	6,145	87
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	6,257	87
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	6,368	88
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	6,477	89
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	6,586	90
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	6,695	91
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	6,804	92
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	6,912	92
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	7,019	93
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	7,127	94
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	7,234	95
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	7,343	96
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	7,452	97
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	7,560	98
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	7,666	98

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 Laos, Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.