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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	Greece	Cameroon
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	10,618	15,483
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	10,662	15,913
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	10,718	16,354
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	10,757	16,815
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	10,783	17,289
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	10,809	17,764
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	10,841	18,249
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	10,874	18,746
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	10,901	19,278
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	10,930	19,843
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	10,959	20,419
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	10,973	21,002
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	10,957	21,586
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	10,898	22,181
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	10,819	22,800
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	10,747	23,513
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	10,677	24,273
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	10,633	24,995
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	10,612	25,680
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	10,590	26,373
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	10,579	27,114
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	10,556	27,878
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	10,499	28,663
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	10,437	29,417

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 Tunisia, Cameroon; the database as a whole is cited above.