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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	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	11,075	10,618	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	11,405	10,662	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	11,828	10,718	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,380	10,757	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	12,829	10,783	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,178	10,809	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,540	10,841	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,917	10,874	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,309	10,901	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,722	10,930	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	15,152	10,959	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	15,600	10,973	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	16,064	10,957	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	16,563	10,898	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	17,072	10,819	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	17,575	10,747	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	18,094	10,677	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	18,621	10,633	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,157	10,612	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,698	10,590	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	20,242	10,579	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	20,788	10,556	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	21,336	10,499	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	21,889	10,437	2,559

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