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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Oman	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	2,348	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	2,403	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	2,457	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	2,510	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	2,562	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	2,613	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	2,663	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	2,713	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	2,764	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	2,816	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	2,871	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	2,928	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	2,986	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	3,047	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	3,110	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	3,174	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	3,240	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	3,307	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	3,375	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	3,444	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	3,512	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	3,582	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	3,651	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	3,696	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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.