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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nepal	Sudan	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	26,168	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	26,771	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	27,387	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	28,017	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	28,662	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	29,321	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	29,996	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	30,686	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	31,393	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	32,137	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	33,078	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	33,891	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	34,568	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	35,293	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	36,093	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	37,058	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	38,165	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	39,294	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	40,512	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	41,764	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	42,952	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	44,121	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	45,290	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	46,498	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 Nepal, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.