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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	Greece	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	10,618	138
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	10,662	141
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	10,718	144
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	10,757	147
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	10,783	151
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	10,809	154
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	10,841	158
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	10,874	161
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	10,901	165
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	10,930	168
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	10,959	172
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	10,973	176
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	10,957	180
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	10,898	183
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	10,819	187
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	10,747	190
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	10,677	194
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	10,633	198
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	10,612	201
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	10,590	204
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	10,579	208
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	10,556	212
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	10,499	216
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	10,437	220

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.