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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Greece	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	10,618	273
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	10,662	274
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	10,718	275
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	10,757	276
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	10,783	278
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	10,809	279
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	10,841	280
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	10,874	281
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	10,901	282
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	10,930	283
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	10,959	285
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	10,973	286
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	10,957	287
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	10,898	288
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	10,819	289
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	10,747	290
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	10,677	291
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	10,633	291
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	10,612	292
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	10,590	293
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	10,579	294
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	10,556	294
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	10,499	295
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	10,437	295

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 Nepal, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.