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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Yemen	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	16,728	152
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	17,236	153
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	17,762	154
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	18,310	155
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	18,855	156
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	19,410	157
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	20,000	157
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	20,611	158
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	21,236	159
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	21,878	160
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	22,533	160
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	23,195	161
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	23,880	162
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	24,594	162
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	25,311	163
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	26,020	163
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	26,698	164
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	27,347	164
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	27,985	165
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	28,608	166
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	29,216	166
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	29,811	167
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	30,399	167
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	31,058	167

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 Yemen, St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.