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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cambodia	Greece	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,122	10,618	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,317	10,662	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,504	10,718	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,691	10,757	396
Dec 31, 2003	12,881	10,783	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,076	10,809	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,276	10,841	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,461	10,874	405
Dec 31, 2007	13,630	10,901	406
Dec 31, 2008	13,808	10,930	409
Dec 31, 2009	13,990	10,959	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,162	10,973	414
Dec 31, 2011	14,322	10,957	416
Dec 31, 2012	14,480	10,898	420
Dec 31, 2013	14,637	10,819	426
Dec 31, 2014	14,793	10,747	435
Dec 31, 2015	14,994	10,677	445
Dec 31, 2016	15,238	10,633	455
Dec 31, 2017	15,480	10,612	468
Dec 31, 2018	15,717	10,590	485
Dec 31, 2019	15,944	10,579	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,149	10,556	516
Dec 31, 2021	16,338	10,499	518
Dec 31, 2022	16,514	10,437	530

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.

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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

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 Cambodia, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.