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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	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	10,618	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	10,662	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	10,718	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	10,757	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	10,783	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	10,809	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	10,841	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	10,874	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	10,901	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	10,930	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	10,959	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	10,973	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	10,957	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	10,898	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	10,819	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	10,747	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	10,677	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	10,633	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	10,612	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	10,590	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	10,579	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	10,556	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	10,499	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	10,437	3,570

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, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.