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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	Romania	Greece	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	10,618	627
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	10,662	659
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	10,718	691
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	10,757	724
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	10,783	757
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	10,809	850
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	10,841	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	10,874	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	10,901	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	10,930	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	10,959	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	10,973	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	10,957	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	10,898	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	10,819	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	10,747	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	10,677	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	10,633	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	10,612	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	10,590	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	10,579	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	10,556	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	10,499	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.