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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 GreeceMoldovaTrinidad & Tobago
10,6184,2441,301
10,6624,1991,303
10,7184,1541,308
10,7574,1081,314
10,7834,0591,320
10,8094,0131,326
10,8413,9661,332
10,8743,9191,338
10,9013,8731,344
10,9303,8291,352
10,9593,7881,359
10,9733,7481,365
10,9573,7091,372
10,8983,6711,379
10,8193,6331,386
10,7473,5951,392
10,6773,5581,399
10,6333,5221,405
10,6123,4851,411
10,5903,4481,436
10,5793,4121,452
10,5563,3761,448
10,4993,3391,450
10,4373,5701,456

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 Moldova, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.