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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 TunisiaTrinidad & TobagoGreece
9,4171,30110,618
9,5141,30310,662
9,6131,30810,718
9,7111,31410,757
9,8101,32010,783
9,9061,32610,809
9,9971,33210,841
10,0871,33810,874
10,1781,34410,901
10,2741,35210,930
10,3771,35910,959
10,4911,36510,973
10,6121,37210,957
10,7371,37910,898
10,8661,38610,819
10,9961,39210,747
11,1241,39910,677
11,2481,40510,633
11,3651,41110,612
11,4771,43610,590
11,5831,45210,579
11,6811,44810,556
11,7721,45010,499
11,8621,45610,437

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 Tunisia, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.