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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Greece	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	10,618	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	10,662	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	10,718	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	10,757	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	10,783	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	10,809	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	10,841	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	10,874	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	10,901	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	10,930	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	10,959	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	10,973	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	10,957	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	10,898	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	10,819	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	10,747	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	10,677	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	10,633	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	10,612	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	10,590	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	10,579	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	10,556	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	10,499	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	10,437	2,739

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.

All data sources

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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 Namibia; the database as a whole is cited above.