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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	37,914	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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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