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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Oman	Bulgaria
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	2,348	8,091
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	2,403	8,052
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	2,457	7,798
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	2,510	7,755
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	2,562	7,710
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	2,613	7,668
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	2,663	7,628
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	2,713	7,587
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	2,764	7,549
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	2,816	7,513
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	2,871	7,475
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	2,928	7,425
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	2,986	7,242
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	3,047	7,200
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	3,110	7,160
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	3,174	7,119
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	3,240	7,074
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	3,307	7,024
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	3,375	6,973
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	3,444	6,923
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	3,512	6,874
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	3,582	6,833
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	3,651	6,778
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	3,696	6,720

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

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

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