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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Netherlands	Romania	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	15,817	22,414	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	15,932	22,262	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	16,052	22,106	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	16,155	21,931	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	16,231	21,828	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	16,288	21,704	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	16,326	21,571	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	16,352	21,443	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	16,388	21,129	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	16,452	20,779	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	16,536	20,607	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	16,621	20,485	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	16,699	20,385	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	16,761	20,296	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	16,810	20,224	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	16,871	20,151	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	16,946	20,055	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	17,036	19,938	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	17,137	19,823	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	17,238	19,713	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	17,351	19,622	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	17,448	19,496	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	17,539	19,351	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	17,709	19,266	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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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