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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Burkina Faso	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	623	11,075	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	623	11,405	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	623	11,828	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	622	12,380	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	621	12,829	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	621	13,178	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	621	13,540	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	620	13,917	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	620	14,309	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	621	14,722	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	622	15,152	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	623	15,600	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	622	16,064	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	622	16,563	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	622	17,072	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	621	17,575	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	620	18,094	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	618	18,621	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	616	19,157	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	614	19,698	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	613	20,242	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	612	20,788	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	611	21,336	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	610	21,889	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

Montenegro

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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