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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	St. Lucia	Moldova	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	152	4,244	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	153	4,199	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	154	4,154	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	155	4,108	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	156	4,059	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	157	4,013	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	157	3,966	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	158	3,919	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	159	3,873	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	160	3,829	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	160	3,788	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	161	3,748	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	162	3,709	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	162	3,671	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	163	3,633	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	163	3,595	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	164	3,558	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	164	3,522	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	165	3,485	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	166	3,448	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	166	3,412	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	167	3,376	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	167	3,339	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	167	3,570	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.

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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 St. Lucia, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.