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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Laos	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	5,286	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	5,397	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	5,499	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	5,578	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	5,654	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	5,746	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	5,836	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	5,931	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	6,035	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	6,145	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	6,257	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	6,368	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	6,477	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	6,586	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	6,695	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	6,804	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	6,912	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	7,019	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	7,127	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	7,234	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	7,343	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	7,452	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	7,560	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	7,666	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 Trinidad & Tobago, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.