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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	Sudan	Greece	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	277	26,168	10,618	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	281	26,771	10,662	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	285	27,387	10,718	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	288	28,017	10,757	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	289	28,662	10,783	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	293	29,321	10,809	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	296	29,996	10,841	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	304	30,686	10,874	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	311	31,393	10,901	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	319	32,137	10,930	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,078	10,959	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	318	33,891	10,973	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,568	10,957	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	321	35,293	10,898	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	324	36,093	10,819	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	327	37,058	10,747	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	331	38,165	10,677	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	335	39,294	10,633	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	343	40,512	10,612	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	353	41,764	10,590	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	361	42,952	10,579	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	366	44,121	10,556	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	372	45,290	10,499	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,498	10,437	21,889

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 Sudan, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.