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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	Iceland	Burkina Faso	Greece	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	10,618	273
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	10,662	274
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	10,718	275
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	10,757	276
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	10,783	278
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	10,809	279
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	10,841	280
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	10,874	281
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	10,901	282
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	10,930	283
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	10,959	285
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	10,973	286
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	10,957	287
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	10,898	288
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	10,819	289
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	10,747	290
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	10,677	291
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	10,633	291
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	10,612	292
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	10,590	293
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	10,579	294
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	10,556	294
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	10,499	295
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	10,437	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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 Burkina Faso, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.