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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Sudan	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	26,168	422
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	26,771	430
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	27,387	438
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	28,017	447
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	28,662	455
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	29,321	463
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	29,996	471
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	30,686	478
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	31,393	486
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	32,137	494
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	33,078	501
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	33,891	509
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	34,568	516
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	35,293	524
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	36,093	531
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	37,058	539
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	38,165	546
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	39,294	553
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	40,512	562
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	41,764	568
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	42,952	574
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	44,121	580
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	45,290	585
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	46,498	590

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 Sudan, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.