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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Singapore	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	3,959	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	4,028	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	4,138	275
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	4,176	276
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	4,115	278
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	4,167	279
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	4,266	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	4,401	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	4,589	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	4,839	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	4,988	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	5,077	286
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	5,184	287
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	5,312	288
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	5,399	289
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	5,470	290
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	5,535	291
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	5,607	291
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	5,612	292
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	5,639	293
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	5,704	294
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	5,686	294
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	5,716	295
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	5,750	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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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