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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Barbados	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	78	273	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	79	274	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	80	275	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	81	276	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	82	278	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	83	279	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	84	280	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	85	281	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	86	282	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	87	283	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	87	285	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	88	286	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	89	287	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	90	288	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	91	289	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	92	290	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	92	291	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	93	291	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	94	292	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	95	293	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	96	294	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	97	294	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	98	295	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	98	295	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 Seychelles, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.