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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	146,693

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.