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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Greece	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	10,618	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	10,662	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	10,718	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	10,757	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	10,783	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	10,809	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	10,841	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	10,874	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	10,901	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	10,930	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	10,959	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	10,973	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	10,957	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	10,898	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	10,819	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	10,747	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	10,677	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	10,633	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	10,612	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	10,590	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	10,579	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	10,556	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	10,499	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	10,437	19,266

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.