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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	Greece	Burkina Faso	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,618	11,075	433
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,662	11,405	438
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,718	11,828	443
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,757	12,380	448
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,783	12,829	454
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,809	13,178	460
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,841	13,540	467
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,874	13,917	474
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,901	14,309	482
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,930	14,722	491
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,959	15,152	500
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,973	15,600	509
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,957	16,064	521
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,898	16,563	533
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,819	17,072	547
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,747	17,575	560
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,677	18,094	571
Dec 31, 2016	335	10,633	18,621	586
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,612	19,157	599
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,590	19,698	610
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,579	20,242	623
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,556	20,788	633
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,499	21,336	643
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,437	21,889	651

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