Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Mali	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	10,596	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	10,833	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	10,890	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	11,007	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	11,307	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	11,579	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	11,804	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	12,043	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	12,337	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	12,657	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	12,986	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	13,325	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	13,679	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	14,040	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	14,412	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	14,803	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	15,210	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	15,629	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	16,060	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	16,507	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	16,967	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	17,442	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	17,930	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	18,494	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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