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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Burkina Faso	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	277	51,181	11,075	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	281	52,782	11,405	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	285	54,453	11,828	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	288	56,170	12,380	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	289	57,860	12,829	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	293	59,599	13,178	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	296	61,474	13,540	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,479	13,917	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	311	65,590	14,309	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	319	67,800	14,722	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	319	70,114	15,152	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	318	72,550	15,600	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	319	75,138	16,064	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,792	16,563	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,534	17,072	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	327	83,368	17,575	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	331	86,229	18,094	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	335	89,193	18,621	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	343	92,209	19,157	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	353	95,232	19,698	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	361	98,320	20,242	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	366	101,499	20,788	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	372	104,767	21,336	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	380	108,171	21,889	10,437

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.