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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Greece	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	10,618	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	10,662	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	10,718	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	10,757	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	10,783	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	10,809	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	10,841	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	10,874	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	10,901	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	10,930	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	10,959	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	10,973	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	10,957	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	10,898	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	10,819	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	10,747	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	10,677	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	10,633	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	10,612	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	10,590	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	10,579	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	10,556	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	10,499	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	10,437	21,889

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