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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date TunisiaGreeceSenegal
9,41710,61810,070
9,51410,66210,305
9,61310,71810,576
9,71110,75710,864
9,81010,78311,172
9,90610,80911,498
9,99710,84111,839
10,08710,87412,204
10,17810,90112,584
10,27410,93012,978
10,37710,95913,382
10,49110,97313,794
10,61210,95714,226
10,73710,89814,668
10,86610,81915,121
10,99610,74715,589
11,12410,67716,066
11,24810,63316,549
11,36510,61217,044
11,47710,59017,535
11,58310,57918,021
11,68110,55618,518
11,77210,49919,016
11,86210,43719,512

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, Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.