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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Palestinian Territories	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	433	2,996	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	438	3,075	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	443	3,155	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	448	3,235	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	454	3,315	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	460	3,396	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	467	3,478	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	474	3,559	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	482	3,642	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	491	3,727	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	500	3,817	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	509	3,907	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	521	3,997	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	533	4,088	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	547	4,178	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	560	4,269	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	571	4,359	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	586	4,451	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	599	4,533	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	610	4,615	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	623	4,715	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	633	4,820	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	643	4,930	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	651	5,042	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 Luxembourg, Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.